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BH-5 Active Cooling

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Patrick1

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I have some ocz gold with bh-5 im running 2-2-2-5 with 3.3V i have a 92mm on the side of my case which gives the ram a light breeze but nothing much. The ram is very hot to the toach so i am worried.

Do i need even more cooling for these bad boys?
 
It really depends on your definition of a 'light breeze'. Its best to have a dedicated fan focused on the ram as, like you said, it gets damn hot. My advice would be to jerry-rig that 92mm fan (or a spare 80mm or whatever) to point directly onto it to be sure that its getting the cooling it needs.

But....if its stable already, then....well.....you know......she'll be apples lol.
 
i dont think ram can mess up no matter how hot it gets. The heat spreaders are more of just design than actual cooling methods
 
ram can very much mess up if it gets too hot. Thats why you should always run memtest for several sessions, to see if you get errors as the ram cooks. I have a 60mm fan blowing over my ram, i've hit 260mhz stable @ 2-2-2-8 3.4v's. No way i would ever run above 3.0v's without some sort of active cooling. For 24/7 use i've actually gotten away from the overclock cause of fan noise and run a 5/6 divider 200mhz 2-2-2-5 @2.8v's.
 
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