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Looking for a thermal tape or adhesive for GTX470

rga

rga

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Cleaned out my PC last night. Took apart my eVGA GTX470 and cleaned everything up. A lot of dust was sticking to the thermal adhesive that was attached to the RAM chips, so I removed that too. Now I need something to replace it. Don't think I can use AS, because the the adhesive that was on there didn't really connect the RAM chips to a heatsink; just to the plastic fan assembly.

Can somebody recommend some thermal tape or adhesive that I can use on my GTX470 RAM chips? It would also be great if I could purchase it from a Canadian outlet, like newegg.ca or canadacomputers.com or ncix.com. Those are the ones I'm most familiar with, but I'm willing to purchase from any reputable online retailer.

Finally, do the RAM chips on the GTX470 actually get that hot that they need thermal tape? I know the GPU gets hot. I'm not planning to run the card without a heatsink/fan/AS on the GPU, but is it absolutely necessary to cool the RAM chips at stock speed?
 
I guess I should clarify. I don't need tape. I guess I need that 2-4mm thick "goop" that fills the space between the RAM chips and the heasink on the card. I found some tape from an old aftermarket cooler I had and it's too thin; there is no contact between the RAM chips and plastic fan assembly on my eVGA GTX470.
 
Thick is your enemy in the war on cooling.
The whole point og adhesive or "goop" is to take up micro-spces between the surface to be cooled and the surface used to pull that heat away.
2-4mm is too thick to work correctly, check your assembly again.
 
4mm is too thick. You're right. I measured some of the dusty shit I took off the assembly. It IS 2mm. Again, I'm not using it to secure any heatsinks to the RAM chips. It seems this stuff is used to fill the gap between the PLASTIC fan assembly and the chips, while providing some little relief for the chips themselves. It almost seems to fill the role of shock absorber. The stuff I removed is what came with the card, and I'm just looking for something to replace it. Also, Canadian retailers aren't necessary, just preferable.
 
So it turns out that assembly is actually metal. Lol. I thought it was plastic. And it also turns out that contact between the metal and the RAM chips is made without the goop. I'll just try using arctic silver. Thanks for the help.

By the way, the goop was 2mm in thickness, but it must have been compressed tightly once the heatsink is attached.

Thanks for all the help.
 
Make sure the heatsink can not come in contact with any of the ram connectors. You would hate to short out a connection. But yea if there isnt any chance of it shorting anything out, slap some AS5 on it.
 
Unfortunately, I found out that contact between the RAM chips and the heatsink do not make contact with just AS. I ended up putting back the thermal "goop" that came with it after removing as much dust as I could.

Would still like to find some type of thermal pad that I can use to replace the factory standard stuff. Needs to be around 2mm thick to fill the space between the chips and the heatsink.
 
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