MacBook Pro Ram Temps?

[omalley]

I have a mid 2015 MAcBook Pro with Retnia display. It has an I7 4870HQ, 16GB of DDR3, AMD Radeon R7 M380.

Anyways, I noticed while doing some light gaming, for example these readings are while playing Oblivion. But I noticed that the Ram or Chanel Dims, I'm not sure what the readings are exactly but they seem to be getting extremely high temps.

 

[Blatcher2]

What are the temps that you are referencing? In general anything below 85C shouldn't damage the RAM. It vary's after that.

 

[omalley]

What are the temps that you are referencing? In general anything below 85C shouldn't damage the RAM. It vary's after that.

Look at the picture posted, there is a black box around the 4 temps I'm referring to. If you look at the maximum temp they reached it was 109, and that wasn't for a brief second either, they where at that temp for a while and once i stoppped gaming i would say it took them about 5 minutes to get back down to the current temp.

 

[Blatcher2]

What are the temps that you are referencing? In general anything below 85C shouldn't damage the RAM. It vary's after that.

Look at the picture posted, there is a black box around the 4 temps I'm referring to. If you look at the maximum temp they reached it was 109, and that wasn't for a brief second either, they where at that temp for a while and once i stoppped gaming i would say it took them about 5 minutes to get back down to the current temp.

Sorry, I can't see any picture. 109C does seem high. I'm really not sure what toy can do though. If you play on a long gaming sension use a notebook cooler of sometime to try and give it as much breathing room as possible. I'm not familiar with RAM temps but I doubt you are the only Mac user with this issue.

 

[omalley]

Well the ram is solder onto the board, and i have a notebook cooler with 2 120mm fans but like all macbooks, they really don't have any vents so all im mainly cooling down is the chassie which does pull some ehat away from the components.

 

[Blatcher2]

If it was a Windows PC or really any other brand of laptop I would say to take off the back and put thermal pad or copper shingles on the RAM chips. If you could use the aluminum shell as a heatsink for the RAM with thermal pads in between that would be ideal.

Unfortunately I have no idea how to deal with it since it is likely more complicated than just taking a feel screws out the back.

Ask Mac user

 

[omalley]

Actually I've had the back off it already, it's like 8 screws and it pops right off.