Heatsinks for (video) RAM - where, and do they work?

Jubjub

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I just picked up a Hercules Prophet II MX card, and since the greatest overclocking gains for this card come from cranking up the memory clock, I was thinking about getting some little heatsinks for the RAM. I know I've seen them somewhere in the past, but can't find anyone who carries them now.
Also, I was wondering whether anyone has tried these, and if so, what kind of results they've gotten.

Thanks!
 

resinboy

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2cooltec has the chips: I think their value depends on the heat generated. I had a gforce sdr that ran pretty hot, and I used ram chips I had made. My new gforce2 gts barely even gets warm to the touch, so I haven't bothered.
 

toph99

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i thought all herculese prophet already came with ram heatsinks? 2cool has some, but it depends on the card, like he said. my voodoo3 2000, even overclocked to 175, the ram barely gets warm, and thats mostly just the runoff of the heat from the processor to the rest of the board
 

Jubjub

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Cool folks. Thanks for hooking me up!

Toph99, the Hercules Prophet II MX comes with a pretty blue heatsink on the video processor, but the RAM chips are naked. Judging from everyone's feedback, however, sounds like heat may not be a limiting factor in the overclockability of the memory, so maybe I'll just let it go.

On the other hand, I'd put a heatsink on my cat if it'd hold still long enough, just 'cause they're cool and I'm into the whole hardware thing, so maybe I'll pick up som RAM sinks after all...

TX!