High Q9550 temps after new ram.

[Scuttlebug]

Hi all, I hope you can advise me.

I have a Q9550 with stock cooler in a Rampage Extreme and til this morning I had 2 gb of ocz 1600 ram. Regardless of what I did with my machine and inspite of all the freezing caused by consistant and constant HDD caching (because of lack of ram), my cpu rarely hit 70 degrees C.

As I was getting tired of the persistant lack of performance I decided to buy more ram.... I got a good deal 8GB G Skill Ripjaw 1600 for £41... nice price but since seating it my cpu and northbridge idle at 75 (as I do nothing but have my browser open writing this I'm at 78 :<), at least 10 deg diff between core 0 and core 3 (and gaming or other intensive actions push it to high 90's/ 100 causing pc shut down) and 80-82 respectively, with my power about 50-52... these temps are a good deal higher than I'm used to having and being fairly (read positively) sure I haven't unseated my cooler I can only think of the ram being the culprit.....(once I had replaced my ram, my pc automatically 🙂o) OC'd my proc to 3 ghz and matched the ram fsb of 1600... I know that would cause a temp jump...but so much and across the board like that?)

Can ram cause such drastic temp differences?

One thing about the ram though... this is it.. http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B004HZG4ZO

It advertises itself as designed for sandybridge.... WOULD IT MATTER???... It fits my MB, was recognised pefectly, it works fine and is perfectly stable.. infact my other ram never worked at 1600 fsb and had to be used at 1333 (running the cpu at default).. so in those terms the new ram actually works far better than my old stuff.... is my new ram causing the heat excess?

In case it's just a matter of the fact that the OC has caused temp crazyness I've ordered an Arctic cooler 13 pro to take up the slack of my stock intel cooler (which I always though were fairly ok), but my temps just don't seem normal.

Would much appreciate some insight.

TY.

 

[cpatel1987]

I realize you said you may not have unseated the cooler, but uneven temperatures almost always point to a cooler that isn't seated evenly. May have accidently bumped it when putting in the new ram. Try reseating the cooler. I usually have trouble with pushpin coolers in general and have become a bracket guy myself.

Also, if you are overclocking, set everything back to stock settings and note the difference. Adding more RAM means your also adding more content that requires more electricity, so it is possible the RAM is causing the motherboard to overheat if its being overclocked. Then again, I don't really mess with overclocking, not something I like messing with.

 

[Scuttlebug]

Yep.. I totally agree, but the cooler was the first thing I checked and it's absolutely solid.. there's no give there at all... :/

 

[beenthere]

DDR3 RAM only draws ~10W of power per DIMM. The OE fan it is pretty limited so with an OC, especially if your room temp. is warm you could be beyond it's capability. The Arctic Cooler 13 is a modest HSF that should lower the temps some, perhaps back to where you started before the RAM upgrade.

 

[Scuttlebug]

OK.. got my cooler, fitted it and run Prime 95.

From the temps above I've dropped 🙂D) to cpu 46 idle 64 full load, NB is 75 at full load (still hot I know.. but I fitted my NB air cooler instead of the waterblock and new paste.. not much diff.. admittedly its a tight sqeeze with my cpu cooler in the way, but at least it's not in the 80's as it was before.. and my power temp didn't go above 52... usually about 47.

So I don't really see heat being too much of an issue now.

I'm have to admit that I'm pretty impressed with my cooler.

 

[Scuttlebug]

AND I still get my OC.