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das_stig $3G on a motherboard, good luck, only so many rich clueless Muppets out there! Reply
thesyndrome Would the RAM being positioned directly above the CPU socket potentially cause heat buildup in the RAM? I'm no expert by any means whatsoever, so I may be completely wrong about this, but after reading the article I thought about where my RAM is currently positioned: vertically aligned on the right hand side of the motherboard, on the opposite side to the CPU socket and PCI-e slots (also opposite side form the PSU), meaning it's far from the rising heat of those 3 components. This design shows the RAM aligned horizontally above the CPU socket, meaning not only is it now in the path of the rising heat, but it also has a wider surface area to catch the heat due to being horizontal instead of vertical. Like I said: I'm no expert at all, but reading the article and thinking about how some RAM sticks come with their own heatsinks these days made me wonder if this positioning for speed will hurt the longevity of the memory sticks? Reply
BillyBuerger thesyndrome said: Would the RAM being positioned directly above the CPU socket potentially cause heat buildup in the RAM? Yes, heat rises. But it only takes a small amount of airflow to make it go down if you want it. The amount of heat rising into the memory would be minor if even noticeable. It might actually be better there as many GPUs blow their heat up through the card which then blow right over the normal memory location which probably heats up memory more then this arrangement. I didn't actually notice the rotated CPU/memory at first. You don't see this often on modern motherboards. I have a very old Socket 754 board with this arrangement. It actually worked really well as I stuck this system in an old Dell Precision workstation case where the power supply hung over the top of the motherboard . Moving the CPU a little lower like this allowed an old 80mm tower heat sink to just fit below the PSU. And since AMD sockets are directional, this 90 degree change meant that it was pointed to the back of the case. Very specific use case but there are definitely some advantages to arranging the motherboard like this. Probably the biggest draw back is that there is only room for two slots like they use here. But you get the best performance from using a single dim per channel so using 4 dim slots isn't ideal anyways. Reply
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