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Unread 05-13-2002, 09:54 AM   #16
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prb123: I hear what you're saying, and I admit, I'd also like to see if it has any effect, but logic dictates...

In electronics, a bunch of things happen to components when their temperatures change. In this particular case, cooling down a CPU will yield results, wether it's cooling to ambient/near-ambiant temperature or below. However, memory does not need to be cooled in order to run, like a CPU does.

And so we get to the point: if a CPU had no cooling whatsoever, it would fry. So a cooling solution has to be applied, otherwise the temperature will reach a maximum (somewhere above 90C).

RAM never reaches its maximum operating temperature, with no cooling whatsoever, and that temp is already near-ambiant.

So if you cool a CPU (as you are required to do), you will get better results, because you're taking a temperature down from its maximum, by a good 50C, and in some cases, even more.

If you Pelt-cool RAM, you will simply take an electronic circuit from near-ambient temperature, to below freezing, in a temperature range where the circuit was NOT designed to run. You will not cool it by at least 50C, and you will not get better results.

I predict that the RAM will not work at all. I predict that the RAM will be damaged. I also predict that it will be too difficult to isolate it so that no condensation will damage the RAM or Mother board.

Now if we had military grade components, it would be a different story, as they are specifically designed to operate in a wider range of temperatures, but as far as I know, that just doesn't exist for RAM.

Can't wait to see the results...

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