corsair xms2 6400C4 heat

agnes · 13 Jul 2007 at 01:23

atm, im using 2 gig of this ram, will be putting in 4 gig this weekend.

now, this 2 gig is running at stock everything, ive put the volts to 2.1v purely to be safe with the 680i board, but they are really hot, and when i say realy hot, i mean really hot, almost untouchable.

now, i do have a dominator mem cooler which i have a few back from when i had my 4 gigs of dominator before i got it RMA'd, what do you guys think? install it?

ags

agnes · 13 Jul 2007 at 01:44

stuck it on anyway, nice n cold now, i feel confident it will keep the 4 gigs cool

ags

Dwbreeze1982 · 13 Jul 2007 at 01:48

i would, just to be on the safe side, im sure it will drop the temps, either that or mod a case fan near it

Yellowbeard · 13 Jul 2007 at 18:10

I don't think that particular memory should run so hot. Do you have access to a volt meter so that you could manually verify the voltages? Also, if you want to try to decrease the heat, see if the memory will be stable with less than 2.1v. 2.0v or less seems like a small drop but may make a big difference.