8800GT cooling question

[akramar]

My Asus 8800GT works fine now on 700MHz core and 2000MHz RAM. I would like to replace the stock cooler with Zalman VF1000-LED (wrote about that to Zalman, they confirm it compatible). The question is how to cool those power regulators? I have some Thermaltake heatsinks but they don't have thermal strips. If I glue them on with Arctic Silver thermal compound, they would stick forever, but I am affraid of electric shortcuts. Is Arctic Silver electric conductor?

 

[Golgatha]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/...x?Item=N82E16835100013

You might want to use this for an electrically insulating compound.

"The ceramic composition means that there is no danger of a short circuit, unlike the silver based compounds. Arctic Alumina conducts heat away from sensitive components and improves the efficiency of your cooling system. Keep things cool and functioning under the hottest action!"

 

[yacoub]

Originally posted by: akramar
The question is how to cool those power regulators?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=165270

 

[error8]

I don't think glueing them forever will be a good ideea. I found out that plain double sided sticky tape is good for glueing ram heatsinks on. I don't know if any tape will work, but you could buy a couple of them and try it on one of the ram chips. And you can find this in any store and is very cheap to.

 

[akramar]

Thanx. I'm simply gonna buy extra RAM heatsinks from Zalman.