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I've seemed to get mixed answers about this. Will air cooling your ram help the OC on your CPU?

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I heard from a very experienced PC guy, that is good to keep your RAM under 50-55 degrees, to avoid errors. How much of that is true, i have no idea, but seems about right, mine does not exceed 40. So as long as it's under 50, considering that statement true, you are good, be it water or air...

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no

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in the very rare case where you're meeting the thermal limits of the RAM then yes, it would improve system stability and thus help attain a better CPU overclock. the thing is it's almost impossible to actually make RAM get too hot because it simply doesn't do that, it's flash memory it just doesn't generate any meaningful heat even if you overclock to ridiculous. keeping memory at a specific temp really won't affect any errors you get unless it's way too hot or sub zero.

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