does ram overheat

[bilal.FN]

i have 16gb 2666 mhz ram. it is just a green stck no heatsink or rgb. Shoud i buy a heatsink for it or is it normal?i have 1 16gb stick

[Entropy.]

2 minutes ago, bilal.FN said:

i have 16gb 2666 mhz ram. it is just a green stck no heatsink or rgb. Shoud i buy a heatsink for it or is it normal?i have 1 16gb stick

The heat output shouldn't normally be a concern. Maybe if you have a microwave case, but in most circumstances ram Isn't currently hot enough for you to need to take active action and try to cool it. Plus, It's very difficult to put heatsinks on ram that ship without it. 

[TTVYoYoDancesOnYou]

It could, but only if the computer is boiling hot

[WereCat]

No. 

[seban]

Yes it does, but only if you physically try to overheat it. 

 

Edit: like putting a heat gun to it

[Middcore]

Heat spreaders on RAM are mainly for looks. 

[whm1974]

1 hour ago, Middcore said:

Heat spreaders on RAM are mainly for looks. 

Remember RAMBUS Memory? Those Modules required Heat Spreaders...

[thrasher_565]

i think the chips on the ram and timings are more imported to the heat spreaders. thow they been marked towards games for years. linus did a video on ram heat i think and max ram size

 

thow hardcore overclockers will beg to differ if the only gole is to get a hi score on a from and dont care if you kill your hardware then w/e i no ram in servers all have air flowing aroubnd it but they also get used 24/7 100% even then they dont have heatspreders on them most of the time.

 

but there's also the silacane lottery to take in to account.

Edited February 2, 2021 by thrasher_565

[SAVE-12-HK]

look at ddr2 / ddr3 ram, never overheated