Ramsinks: Yay or Nay?

[mwmorph]

Are ramsinks really useful? IO have a DDRI 9800pro 128mb and i'd like to know how useful ramsinks are since i plan to attach a Artic VGA Silencer revision 3 takes away the air normally blown on the ram by the stock cooler.

 

[nick1985]

nay

 

[mwmorph]

yeah, i was thinking of just using a 80mm fan to blow on the card zalman zm80 like mounted 1/2 on top and 1/2 on bottom

 

[fstime]

No but doesn't the Artic Silencer cover the GPU and Memory as well?

 

[imported_Kensai]

Originally posted by: BouZouki
No but doesn't the Artic Silencer cover the GPU and Memory as well?

 

[mwmorph]

it's a 128mb 9800pro so it's an artic VGA Vooler Revision 3(not ATI cooler 3) so it dosent cover the ram but leaves around 10 or 14mm for ramsinks.

 

[imported_Kensai]

You don't really need them.

 

[essdeeay]

Are ramsinks really useful? IO have a DDRI 9800pro 128mb and i'd like to know how useful ramsinks are since i plan to attach a Artic VGA Silencer revision 3 takes away the air normally blown on the ram by the stock cooler.

I have the same card but in All-In-Wonder guise. I retro-fitted an Arctic Cooling IceBerq4 and put 8 copper ramsinks on the ram. They hardly warm up at all, so I don't think they're needed.

Steve

 

[DanDaMan315]

When I had my 9800p 256 the ram used to get hot as hell. Then again I had it OC'd.

 

[BD231]

Don't bother.

If you screw up their application they'll actually make your ram hotter. Not worth it IMO.

 

[imported_g33k]

Yep, they are about as useful as heatspreaders on RAM. I actually bought heatspreaders for my Corsair Value Sticks, boy was that dumb.

 

[Elcs]

Well, considering the BBA and Sapphire 128mb 9800 Pro's dont have ramsinks for stock speed ram, I doubt its a yay.

I only have ramsinks on my 128mb 9800 Pro because Zalman supplied them with my VF700Cu and it'd look silly without them.

 

[mwmorph]

Yeah that's what I thought. Most heat come from contact points where ram meets pcb instead of top of ram anyway.