This may sound stupid. -.-
I just built a new system, and started having trouble getting Vista to recognize my 4gigs. I fixed that issue, but as I was fooling around with the RAM, putting sticks on and off the board, I realized how hot they were getting during use. Is it normal for my RAM to be like.. insanely hot? I asked on some other forums this exact same question. Someone suggested my voltage might be too high on the RAM.
What's the voltage supposed to be on my RAM?
I'm not overclocking anything at the moment, and I'm talking about Crucial Ballistix Tracers. 4gigs. Four sticks.
Nothing to do with voltage-What forum???
It can get quite hot how long is your pc on for when they get really hot?
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Like.. five minutes. and it was Computerforums.org.
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Are you running the 32 or 64bit edition of Vista there? The 32bit architecture sees the 3gb barrier. For voltage settings in the bios you need to look over the requirements on the memory itself. Some run at 1.8v and upto 1.95 while others run at 2v.
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64bit Vista. And let me check on the RAM. Didn't even think about reading that.
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Well, it didn't say in the documentation. I'll check online.
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Yes, it's very normal for performance RAM to get very warm, even at default voltages. That's why it has the heat spreaders. Those things can actually handle more voltage than most boards can throw at it, so I wouldn't worry about that. My OCZ was practically glowing after 10 minutes of use. And it doesn't matter what operating system you have (why did you mention that anyways?)
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PC eye
The 32bit architecture sees the 3gb barrier.
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I'm not sure I would call it an architecture barrier. PAE has been a part of the x86 architecture for a long time. But for various reasons (like bad drivers), Microsoft say they won't go beyond 4G.
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The 3gb barrier as it commonly called is the 3gb of flat virtual memory address space. 2000, XP, 2003 all see the 4gb cap while most only notice the missing 1gb of memory when installing 4gb on a system running the 32bit versions of XP or Vista. Some will see a total amount of avialable ram at 3.25gb as they report.
Microsoft provided one article on how to tweak the boot information in the 2000, XP Pro, and Server 2003 versions of Windows you can look over at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/system...AE/PAEmem.mspx But a good reference on the 3gb barrier is better heard from http://www.dansdata.com/askdan00015.htm
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