Arctic Silver 5 + 9800 Pro Memory Chips

[Manzelle]

Is it wise or safe to slap some AS5 on the memory chips of a 9800 Pro or any video card for that matter...it would seem to me that it would be fine...

 

[usernamemax20charact]

You *only* want to put AS5 on them? Why?

 

[Manzelle]

Originally posted by: usernamemax20charact
You *only* want to put AS5 on them? Why?

Well, AS5 and RAM sinks of course...

 

[usernamemax20charact]

Ah! Should be no problem.

 

[fwtong]

I would think that you'd want to use a thermal adhesive, no AS5, otherwise the ramsink won't stick. I think I also read somewhere to use non-conductive stuff, whereas AS5 is conductive (I think).

 

[futuristicmonkey]

I think that AS5 is only slightly capacitative, and only over very short distances when it's compacted - or something. Check this out

 

[pirred908]

Like he said before, the ramsinks won't stick with a thermal paste, you need thermal adhesive. Artic Siler makes some, but its not worth the hassle. Just use the sticky adhesive that comes on the ramsinks.

 

[Kondik]

Every VGA ive got i load it wit heatsing funs and tons of steel and copper