[rescue] SGI temps?

[deanders at pcisys.net]

At 08:31 AM 2/17/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>Kurt Huhn wrote:
>> 
>> Sounds about right.  TRAMs get *hot*.  Luckily, they're designed with
>> that in mind (not to get hot, but built well enough so that they don't
>> self destruct when they get hot).
>
>Well, since TRAMs are infact RamBus RAMs, they all tend to get *hot*.
>Even todays PeeCee RDRAMs have passive heatsinks on them.

If I remember correctly, they aren't actually meant to act as heatsinks,
just as heat spreaders--the problem with RDRAM is that the load isn't
evenly spread across all of the chips in a bank (I want to say that this
has something to do with Rambus' serial access pattern, but this all
half-remembered, so...), so a single chip might be much, much hotter than
the rest. 

Some sort of active cooling probably wouldn't hurt, though.


Derek Andersen

(...I wonder if the RDRAM in my PS2 has any sort of heat spreader...)