Geforce oc'ing memory heatsink

[dpopiz]

Hello.

I just traded my sister a 16MB G400-TV for her 32MB SDR GeForce becuase I never really used the thing except occasionally to watch TV. She got a ps2 and she doesn't have a TV in her dorm room. Anyway... I'm amazed at how much this baby can overclock. It's a VisionTek board and I've been able to get 230MHz core (normal 120MHz) and 250MHz memory (normal 166MHz)!!!-- only tried for 15 mins though with standard cooling for fear of killing my board. I haven't even tried higher that! Prob does go higher by the way it's acted up to here no stability loss. But I want to definetly get some kind of good cooling so I can bear to leave it oc'd for more than a little while (it gets HOT) so here are my questions:

1. Am I really risking botching my board overclocking it this high? (I mean if I can at least keep it cool enough)

2. How can I remove the standard GeForce HSF? (It's the kind that's just glued on)

3. Does anybody know where I can find some memory heatsinks, maybe like the ones on the GF2Us? I found a couple sites that sell sinks for individual chips, but they're about $1.50 a piece! And I have to get 16 for my board. Know of any place to get cheaper small sinks or better yet some sort of long ones for multiple chips like on the GF2U?


THANKS

 

[Supradude]

To remove the sink takes quite a bit of gumption,... heres my experience with an MX, i ran 3dmark for like half an hour to get it nice and toasty, shut down and quickly pulled the card.... while it was still quite warm, i used a letter opener and poisitioned it between the chip and heatsink (relatively) making sure not to be in the way of capacitors or anything else i could accidentally chunk off... then i twisted/pryed the sink and with a SCARY crack! it came off... try searching in the GH forum or this forum for previous threads, theres many on this topic, as for cooling, i get everything from www.2cooltek.com ... check it out

 

[dpopiz]

Hey, I found something good to use for memory cooling! Why didn't I think of goo ol' all electronics before? they have the perfect 1.1" heatsink for sticking on two memory chips!

Thanks anyway.