Quote Originally Posted by conrad.maranan
More voltage will always equate to more heat. Likewise, higher frequencies will also generate more heat. Another tidbit of food for thought is that with your typical fan, the centerpoint is your deadspot. Air is actually being pushed or pulled to or from the area away from the center. This is why fan shrouds are used in automotive applications (radiator). It's use has also been adopted by the PC watercooling guys.

Check your CPU temps. If your CPU gets too hot, so does your memory controller. If your memory controller gets too hot, you'll start to notice the errors.
intresting point, so it might actually still be the ram that is getting hot u think? (even only @ 250mhz and 2.6v?)

damn i really need to find a way to find the hot spot.....

Quote Originally Posted by EMC2
--- killa ---

Be sure to go over and read this post by AndyOCZ regarding VCore settings.

Regarding your Vmem setting issue... you may have found two different limits for your current setup. The first is that your memory may not handle the higher voltage. The second is that your MB may not like the low voltage. The area you describe as cooling with your fan when Vmem is at 2.6V is the area of the regulator that generates the Vmem voltage. It is created from the 3.3V rail in the standard jumper configuration, meaning that the farther you get from 3.3V, the hotter the regulator would get.

Here's a pic of the MB area being discussed for clarity:

aha

so my idea wasnt so bad afterall :p

which one is it on that pic?
the one with the heatsink on? (that one i still might try to touch, the others look a lil dangerous to touch...)

after lots of testing yesterday i couldnt get my pc stable at 10x250 with the big fan on 7v...

occt would fail after 30 mins
the ram does seem to be able to handle it, since memtest looped test 8 10 times and test 5 16 times...