7800GT Ramsinks

[jellybeard999]

It will be fine to run a stock 7800GT with a maze4 on the core, but no ramsinks wont it ?

At least till i get this HS cut up to use...

 

[K404]

I wouldnt risk it. I read on XS about a guy who didnt fit all his RAMsinks right and had horrible display corruption until he fixed it.

I think if ya wanna try without any kind of heatsinks on the RAM, I`d say back off the RAM clocks big time.

 

[jellybeard999]

I wouldnt risk it. I read on XS about a guy who didnt fit all his RAMsinks right and had horrible display corruption until he fixed it.

I think if ya wanna try without any kind of heatsinks on the RAM, I`d say back off the RAM clocks big time.

OK mate, will do

How do you lot attach the sinks ? superglue in each corner or what ?

 

[K404]

Dabs of superglue in the corners with AS5 works yup, or ya could try a mix of thermal epoxy mixed with AS5. I`ve found in general that superglue doesnt have a great effective temperature range, so if your overvolting of pushing the RAM it might not hold, unless you use a fair bit.

The Thermal sticky tape thats often included sucks horribly, so anything other than that will work better (except adding metal plates like I did)



Kenny

 

[wildc4rd]

I tend to use the shin etsu thermal tape for little sinks.

 

[jellybeard999]

I tend to use the shin etsu thermal tape for little sinks.

coincidentally, i just bought 2x 1" x 6" strips from ebay for 99p each 50p postage

im using an old Socket 370 hs for the ram

how strong is it WildCard ? - i was gonna make 4 blocks, 1 for each pair of sinks, that way i get more surface area, and can work around the barbs of the maze4

 

[clone38]

I lost a gf3 to not putting heatsinks on when i watercooled it :/

Make sure there is some airflow over the heatsinks.

 

[phil123]

im using a zalman air cooler on my 7800gt without ramsinks. Its been fine so far. Do you think due to the shape of the zalman and its fan blowing across the ramsinks it will be ok? Or should i use some ramsinks to be safe??

 

[K404]

Use RAMSinks

Better safe than sorry- thats a £200 card.

 

[clone38]

Jelly i have two large blue ramsinks ive had for a while now,you could cut them up to fit your card.

If you want them i can post them out to you.

 

[Master_G]

GDDR3 can run fine without any heatsinks, better to have ramsinks on there if you are overclocking just to max out your overclocks and make it look cool

Best way i have found to stick them on is a 1:1 mix of AS5 and Arctic Epoxy, bond is strong but you can remove when you want to.

Make sure you experiment before though, just to make sure you dont make the bond too permanent.

G