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Enisada
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Enisada
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13 Jun 2003, 4:54pm

RAM HS for Vid Card Any Good??

I'm looking at getting some RAM HS for my vid card not sure if they are all that good. I read a few review of some. I would like to know what your experiance with them were like??
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stoopid
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13 Jun 2003, 4:58pm
I've made my own in the past from old P1 heatsinks, lapped, and mounted with arctic silver epoxy. Didn't do a damn bit of good without a volt mod... cooling alone won't help when overclocking the memory/core (though it helps with core stability when overclocking).
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DexterHolland911
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13 Jun 2003, 5:07pm
It depends on what graphics card you have. For the GF4s it really doesn't do much, maybe a dozen extra mhz on the RAM overclock at best. For older cards, it makes a difference. Depends on your gfx card.
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CCW
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13 Jun 2003, 5:20pm
It depends on the type of modules on the card. If the card uses BGA there is no point especially with lower overclocks because BGA modules are designed to dissipate heat better.

TPOS however creates more heta so its worth putitng heatsinks on them. Usually its betetr to get a bit of air blwoing over them though until you are seriosuly overclocking them when a bit of extra air and RAMsinks are needed.

Craig
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stoopid
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stoopid
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13 Jun 2003, 5:54pm
Originally posted by DexterHolland911
It depends on what graphics card you have. For the GF4s it really doesn't do much, maybe a dozen extra mhz on the RAM overclock at best. For older cards, it makes a difference. Depends on your gfx card.
That's a good point, as CCW explained... I had a GF4 Ti which has the bga memory modules, which don't get hot anyway (but would if they were volt modded).
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Enisada
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13 Jun 2003, 6:05pm
I'm running a 9500Pro not sure what type of memory modules thay are though....
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CCW
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CCW
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13 Jun 2003, 6:15pm
they will probably be BGA (small square ones)
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Enisada
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13 Jun 2003, 6:47pm
Yep thats what they look like. So it wouldn't help all that much other than to make it look pretty??
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Matt
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Matt
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13 Jun 2003, 7:06pm
i put ram heatsinks on my geforce4 ti and they didnt do anything
i put ram heatsinks on my ATI 9500pro and they didnt do anything
the only thing you need ram heatsinks for are old video cards like geforce3 and down.
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CCW
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13 Jun 2003, 7:25pm
coincidence then that they use TPOS matt?

only for real high overclocks mem sinks are useful

Craig
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Matt
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Matt
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13 Jun 2003, 7:46pm
on my 9700pro my ram is Infieon 3.3ns and the ram sinks didnt do anything.
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dydx
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14 Jun 2003, 3:21am
Does anyone remember back in the day on the old icrontic when Mortin & Co taped a super orb to a TNT2 and OCed the core to 400MHz?

Those were the days!

Bring back the ghetto hardware articles
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Matt
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Matt
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14 Jun 2003, 4:39am
Originally posted by dydx
Does anyone remember back in the day on the old icrontic when Mortin & Co taped a super orb to a TNT2 and OCed the core to 400MHz?

Those were the days!

Bring back the ghetto hardware articles
no i remember the day when i overclocked my TNT2 to 200mhz core and 200mhz mem
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DexterHolland911
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15 Jun 2003, 3:14pm
Even volt modded and cranked up real high heatsinks only are slightly useful on the Ti4600. But they do help, as I said earlier, around 10-15mhz. In short, you shouldn't need them.
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Cypher
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24 Jun 2003, 8:42pm
Put heat sink on a videocards is not really useful if you don't overclock it really high. Even if you don't have heatsink on your rams, you can get good result. The most important is to cool you chip.
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