Can RAM thermal throttle?

[Haswellx86]

What happens if RAM gets too hot? If it naturally can't get that hot, then what if we MAKE it to get that hot? Does it thermal throttle, or just burn to death? Same with other PC components? Man, I am using too much IQ nowadays.

[SorryBella]

6 minutes ago, NvidiaFirePro6900XXTX3DPRO said:

Does it thermal throttle

Nope itd just crash into oblivion before the temperature gets to them. But yeah RAM does get hot at high speeds but most heatsink solutions are already able to get it under control.

[RONOTHAN##]

5 minutes ago, NvidiaFirePro6900XXTX3DPRO said:

What happens if RAM gets too hot?

Unless you're overclocking, it doesn't. JEDEC spec has it rated for up to something like 80-90C (forget the exact value), and at stock settings in a hot box case with no airflow it's rare to get above 50-60C at the absolute most (usually closer to 30-40). Plus there are some extreme rated kits rated for well over 100C. It just won't overheat under any reasonable setup. 

 

If you're overclocking and it gets too hot, it errors out. It's a reason why it's recommended that if you are stress testing a RAM overclock in a gaming system you run Furmark or something in the background, to catch thermally related errors.

 

9 minutes ago, NvidiaFirePro6900XXTX3DPRO said:

Does it thermal throttle, or just burn to death?

Either die, cause a ton of errors resulting in BSODs, or most likely trigger a thermal protection and shut the system down. 

 

11 minutes ago, NvidiaFirePro6900XXTX3DPRO said:

Same with other PC components?

Depends on the component. CPUs/GPUs will throttle like crazy, shutdown if they can't get temps under control, and if the shutdown doesn't work the die will crack. PSUs will just trigger OTP assuming they're well made. Motherboards should do the same, though since they're software based they're a little less reliable. SSDs will throttle. 

[RONOTHAN##]

1 minute ago, SorryClaire said:

RAM does get hot at high speeds but most heatsink solutions are already able to get it under control.

Yes but actually no. Yeah it does get hot compared to JEDEC, but it's still rare to see it get above the mid 60s at XMP voltage values. Also the heatsink solutions on DDR4 and later kits of RAM are a joke, barely more effective at cooling than running bare PCBs. Heck, some kits you actually get lower temps by removing the heat spreader if it's a particularly bad example (say it doesn't have PMIC cooling on DDR5, or it's entirely plastic on DDR4). 

[SorryBella]

1 minute ago, RONOTHAN## said:

Also the heatsink solutions on DDR4 and later kits of RAM are a joke, barely more effective at cooling than running bare PCBs. Heck, some kits you actually get lower temps by removing the heat spreader if it's a particularly bad example (say it doesn't have PMIC cooling on DDR5, or it's entirely plastic on DDR4). 

Mhm, i know a lot of them are.