vid card ram cooling

[Gamingfreak]

i have a zalman fan for my vid card and i want to get some better heat sinks for the ram on it any recommendations?

 

[MeTzenAs1]

ehh.. just get some cheap heat spreaders.. honestly they dont do much though. I've tested some top dollar ones and cheap ones at work.. the difference is about 2 degrees celcius. Not like the performance change with aftermarket cpu heatsinks.

 

[HRHunteRHR]

you're better off just shoving fans in your computer, or installing a Liquid Cooling solution.

 

[Gamingfreak]

so the tiny heatsinks on the vid card memory dont really do anything?

 

[alvino]

They do. If your RAM is properly cooled, it increases the efficency of the RAM modules.

Get this:

http://www.ocztechnology.com/products/cooling_products/ocz_copper_bga_ramsink

They're really good. Each fin is a little thin, so if you have enough room on your card, get a credit card or something and you can spread them out "butterfly" style. That would even increase the cooling efficency of the BGA RAM heatsinks.

 

[Gamingfreak]

how should i stick them on? ive heard about artic silver 5 thermal adhesive but ive never seen any (im not talkin about the compound for heatsinks) can anyone give me a link to some preferably in canada

 

[Gamingfreak]

bump

 

[alvino]

how should i stick them on? ive heard about artic silver 5 thermal adhesive but ive never seen any (im not talkin about the compound for heatsinks) can anyone give me a link to some preferably in canada

They come with thermal pads already.