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Heatsinks on Video Ram

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estew33

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Hi All,
I have a evga ultra LE and am going to use watercooling (exos kit ).
I am trying to put the heatsinks on, running into trouble.
1 They keep falling off
2 They are getting in the way of the tubing
Do I really need them on the video ram
Please feel free to give all advice/opinions
Thanks
Ed
 
GDDR3 runs pretty hot. You should definitely put heatsinks on them if you removed the stock fan and cooler.

If they're falling off, use something a little more solid like ceramique. At worst, resort to using thermal tape.
 
maybe you could run the vid card for like a week and let the thermal paste on the ramsinks burn in. That might help it adhere more to the ramsinks. You could try putting something small and metallic in the ramsink fin gaps to hold it in place too. I did that to the ramsinks on my ghetto ge3 ti200 when the ramsinks weren't holding.

And yeah, you need the ram sinks.
 
You don't need RAMsinks on a 6800le. I gaurentee you it won't make any sort of difference. only GDDRII, and GDDRIII really require RAMsinks, because they run quite hot.

edit: if you have the ultra le, the one with the dual DVI. You will need RAMsinks, I tought you were referring to the 6800le. If the RAMsinks aren't sticking, try something like this. Alumina
 
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