RAM overheating

[Peter Domanski]

Qiuli Han wrote:
> Hi Gang,
>
> I am running 7.10 on a i5400xt motherboard. Everything seems fine, 
> except my ECC RAMs are overheating....
>
> All 4 of my RAM modules are reaching 50-60C
>
> Is it normal or just my cooling system is not really effective?
>
> Or there is something I need to configure in the motherboard BIOS?
>
>
> Thanks
I wouldn't worry about it too much unless your getting merry errors. 
Some brands and types of ram will get hotter then others, this is why 
RDRAM has metal shield covering the chips and a caution sticker on it 
warning people about chips getting very hot.

Good Luck