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On 08/21/2011 07:08 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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>> On 08/21/2011 06:33 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Nikos Chantziaras<realnc@×××××.de> |
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>>> wrote: |
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>>>> On 08/21/2011 02:19 PM, Francesco Talamona wrote: |
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>> [...] |
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>> The RAM gets hot when there's RAM load (meaning being used heavily), not |
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>> when there's CPU load :*) |
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> Do you feel heat when your PC is turned on and running hard? Of course |
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> you do. The whole machine heats up. The CPU under load heats the |
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> machine so the RAM and drives and everything else heats up also. Not |
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> as hot as the CPU, but it heats up. So I might agree with you - the |
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> RAM might not be 'hot', but it would certainly be 'warmer'. |
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> I'm not suggesting that this would cause a normal DRAM stick to go |
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> bad, but only that if he had a very marginal bit of RAM that it might |
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> go out of spec... |
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On a laptop maybe. On a desktop, the air around the RAM modules get |
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maybe 1 degree C warmer (I know because I have temp sensor there, |
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connected to the front panel). |
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When it does get warm is when there's GPU and disk load. Those suckers |
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combined can raise the temp inside the box by 5-6 degrees. |
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The meaning of all this is that if memtest can't find any errors after a |
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full run (which can take an hour), the chances of getting an error that |
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is really related to RAM under CPU stress are very slim. |
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