Is it hot enough for you ?

By raising the volts and the memory speed, is there no catch? OCZ gives you full warranty even when you run the sticks at 3.5 volt 24/7.

Running your gear overclocked and overvolted will generate a lot more heat, and having proper cooling installed is a must. Take a look at the photo below to see how much cooling is provided to the motherboard and memory modules:



So let’s find out how hot these sticks get when running them at CL2 3-3-8 and increasing the Speed and Voltage in steps. Temperature measurements were taken from the heat spreader with an accurate K-sensor, the memory chips are running hotter than the values you’ll see below.





15°C increase in temperature going from default speed and voltage to 233Mhz and 3.2V, quite an increase and we are actively cooling these sticks!

Time to push it even higher, these following tests were run on a “cooler” day, so temperature results are not directly comparable with those from the graphs above:





It's getting very hot in here, be careful when increasing the voltage to your DDR modules, make sure you have sufficient active cooling, otherwise you might experience a thermal meltdown ;-)