Has anyone MADE memory heatspreader/HS?

[rjcoolpix880]

It seems like if i got some thin rectangular pieces of copper and used the thermal tape id get better OC performance. Has anyone heard of making their own? seen it or heard about it on the web? I just have PC133 memory but it seems like it might help me overclock? i have cheep memory and have never been able to OC because it isnt stable enough. I figure I could do it for $20 and have extra pieces. I dont know how thick the copper needs to be or if it would even work or be worth it?

 

[KingofFah]

Heat sinks do nothing, just make your RAM look nicer/uglier depending on your view.

 

[JackHomer]

The heatsinks would help disspate the heat coming of off the ram chips. And i have seen people make their own ramsinks out of pennies. It looked really ghetto, but if you really wanted to make them you could. I will have to find the web page that it was on.

 

[Mingon]

Thermal take make them, they do work when using higher vmem

 

[Jon187]

I got a bunch of small memory heatsinks you could use to cool your mem, here is a pic of them in an auction I just had:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3673&item=2081606909&rd=1


I used em on my gf4 vid card, but would also work on pc133 chips etc...


Let me know, we can work something or a trade.

Jon...

 

[Richardito]

Memory heat sinks do help the overclockability of RAM. The way that I did it was by going to RadioShack.com and buying a sheet of aluminum. I then checked the dimensions of the memory sticks and dremeled rectagles out of the aluminum to cover the RAM. To attach them I then used RS's epoxy adhesive and mixed it 1:1 with a thermal compound I had available. It helped me get higher FSB speeds, specially when I installed a blow hole with a fan blowing air to the DIMMS in the motherboard.

 

[SharkyTM]

Originally posted by: Jon187
I got a bunch of small memory heatsinks you could use to cool your mem, here is a pic of them in an auction I just had:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=3673&item=2081606909&rd=1


I used em on my gf4 vid card, but would also work on pc133 chips etc...


Let me know, we can work something or a trade.

Jon...

Dude... BIG nono... read the rules... PM the guy about trading or selling... and more importantly, read the rules in the FS/FT forum...
On topic... you can take copper sheet, and cut it to size. Even better, cut a bunch of sheets, and sand them, then solder them together... would look nice if you took a copper sheet, soldered a bunch of blocks onto it, then another sheet... sand it all, then clearcoat it all... SWEET!!

 

[KingofFah]

YAY I have better heatsinks. Now they can help me do absolutely nothing, since the heat cannot be transferred to the actual heatsink. Even at high vdimm you really cannot do anything. Problem is, the heat is not being transferred to those heatsinks.

 

[dannybin1742]

it might cool them better, but ram is based more on capacitance, i got copper ram sinks for my gainward golden sample, and it helped me milk about 15mhz more out of it

i'm not sure about system ram though, i'd assume it might help a little bit, but its not like you are going to see a 20-30mhz different, maybe 5-10 at the most

 

[rjcoolpix880]

i got a 1/8 aluminum strip at lowes hardware ($5.00). Im going to take them down to 1/16 at work. Then I am going to try to put on some thermal compound and superglue them to the memory. Do you think it would work?

the most ive ever been able to OC is FSB @137. at 138 the computer won't boot im hoping ill get 2 or 3 more mhz out of this.

 

[Richardito]

Originally posted by: rjcoolpix880
i got a 1/8 aluminum strip at lowes hardware ($5.00). Im going to take them down to 1/16 at work. Then I am going to try to put on some thermal compound and superglue them to the memory. Do you think it would work?

the most ive ever been able to OC is FSB @137. at 138 the computer won't boot im hoping ill get 2 or 3 more mhz out of this.

Good luck, it is an interesting project. I would recommend that you don't use superglue, try with epoxy adhesive.