Video card this time!

[entropy]

Alright, this should be one of my last forrays into the cooling section...I hope :banghead:

I've recently been on a 'cooling binge' if you will, what with hot summers and no air conditioning coming up. Decked out my processor, entirely redid my wires (had NO idea you could hide them all behind the motherboard tray!) and even ghetto cooled my Northbridge. I've had my eye on the Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer lately. But, such a wicked cooling option surely needs ramsinks to go with it! so would it be worth the 30 bucks to get some Tweakmonster ramsinks and arctic alimina adhesive? I realized that i have an old AMD k6-2 computer laying around, and I was wondering if i could chop apart the heatsink on there and use that...or would that have poor results? Also, what could I use to affix them to the chips? (aside from buying more compounds)

[Thrax]

Ramsinks for video cards are a waste of money. Short-Media has proven that they have little to no impact on overclocking potential.

[entropy]

Heh? Little to none? So basically you're saying that even if my ram gets incredibly hot to touch, and if i can keep it cooler, there's no reason to buy or even make them? Linkage? :D

[Geeky1]

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5211

RAMsinks, in a properly cooled case, make no difference. Your RAM shouldn't be getting all that hot.

[Thrax]

RAM's overclockability in an air-cooled environment does not come from the rapid dismissal of heat like other circuitry. It tops out when it gets to +/-10MHz of its maximum clockspeed determined by 1000/#NS.

That is when the electrical flow begins to degrade, and artifacting/crashing starts to happen. However that isn't to say that memory doesn't benefit from cooling.. It does. It just needs something more drastic than a hunk of metal.

[keto]

I'll echo the above, and specifically with respect to the Tweakmonster RAMSinks. I reviewed a set for OCCC last year. They did nothing in terms of adding speed on my R9700Pro. They looked nice but needed to be lapped as there was a seam from the plating process on the mounting surface. YMMV but they're mainly for bling bling looks if used on vid card.

And, yes, cutting up any sort of heatsink into smaller pieces is going to be just as effective in most cases.

You CAN get better cooling and results on the vid card core tho, as a rule. I have no comment on or experience with that Arctic Cooling rig u mentioned.

[entropy]

Well, it would keep heat down somewhat, but i suppose the vga silencer would take care of that. but making my own wouldn't help anything really at all? And what did you mean by 1000/#NS ?

[Geeky1]

The CPU heatsink mod will easily outperform the VGA silencer.

[entropy]

Yeah, that's an awesome article Geeky. But, A) I don't something quite so big and heavy on my video card and B) I don't have a heatsink lying around, other than the stock P4 one and the k6-2 which wouldn't work that will I'm sure.

[Geeky1]

The VGA Silencer weighs 278g. The heatsink I used weighs 289g. An all-aluminum one would weigh less than the VGA silencer.

[Mt_Goat]

I agree on not needing anything on the ram of a vid card......unless you are doing some wile O/C'ing involving voltmods. The biggest reason to put HS's on your memory would be to "Look Cool" (That never hurts). :D

[Gobbles]

That is when the electrical flow begins to degrade, and artifacting/crashing starts to happen. However that isn't to say that memory doesn't benefit from cooling.. It does. It just needs something more drastic than a hunk of metal.

also known as electromigration

word a day tp is paying off...

Gobbles

[entropy]

lol, alright, thanks guys. You just saved me $20 or more. So now I gotta figure out what to do with those parts lol, maybe i could make my own and just have it look cool like mtgoat said :D

[Thrax]

also known as electromigration

word a day tp is paying off...

Gobbles

That's quite the Word-a-Day TP. Who made it? IEEE?

[Gobbles]

electronic engineering word of the day tp.. its a niche market...


Gobbles..