VGA RAM heatsinks

newschool

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I am ordering an Accelero S1 for my toasty X1950XT and on every reviews I read the ram heatsinks included would not stick. So I added the blue Zalman heatsinks to my cart* (ZM-RHS1).

Anyone have better choices?
 

zagood

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To your car? How many?

They should be fine, unless you want to go with purchasing copper ones and using thermal epoxy to permanently attach them to the vga ram.

-z
 

newschool

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The MC14 from Swiftech are copper, they seems really good. But they are very big, I checked some side pictures of the S1 and I think the MC14 are like 2 times heigher than the originals ones, it wont fit.

So I guess my only choice is the zalman, since they are pretty low. But anyways they worked good on my 6800GT when I bought a VF700 so I think it gonna be allright.
 

zagood

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I'd say the Thermalright HR-03 is probably the best out there right now. Not taking anything away from the S1 though, looks like a really good cooler, especially for the price.

-z
 

jonmcc33

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Originally posted by: newschool
The Accelero S1 is the BEST GPU cooler atm. http://www.ocia.net/reviews/acceleros1
But the ram heatsinks included sucks. That why I was looking for other aftermarket gpu VRAM heatsinks.

Originally posted by: zagood
I'd say the Thermalright HR-03 is probably the best out there right now. Not taking anything away from the S1 though, looks like a really good cooler, especially for the price.

-z

Neither of those look stock and are a pain in the ass to install. I had a Thermalright V1 Ultra and was never pleased with it.

I picked the Thermaltake TMG-AT1 because of it's stock looking design and DHES. It cooled better than the V1 Ultra and was more quiet.

 

zagood

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Sorry, I don't read spanish.

To get those results, looks like it's using 2x120mm fans. I can understand that...the HR-03 doesn't have that option.

Thanks for bringing up this cooler, I'm seeing a lot of similar results. For the price I think I'll be checking it out for some smaller machines.

Another chart (in english)
http://www.abchw.com/content/comparative-graphs

-z
 

jonmcc33

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Originally posted by: newschool
And the HR-03 is better than the TT TMG-AT1
"The thermalright HR-03 from past reviews of it cools better than the Thermaltake TMG AT1, no doubt about that. But it also takes more space"
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=132836

Do the math.

I have no doubt that it's better, it's freakin' huge. It just doesn't do the stock look very well. I went from stock to V1 Ultra back to stock and then the TMG-AT1. I just didn't have a need to go from there.

FYI, here are pictures of my X1900XT with the V1 Ultra (2 fans) and using a custom vreg heatsink.

http://img430.imageshack.us/im...7007/dscn0723sm1qp.jpg

http://img245.imageshack.us/im...4900/dscn0724sm8fy.jpg

http://img245.imageshack.us/im...2788/dscn0726sm8sq.jpg

 

natto fire

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Originally posted by: jonmcc33
Originally posted by: zagood
Sorry, I don't read spanish.

It's German you ass. :|

I'm sorry, but I found this really hilarious. How xenophobic do you have to be to not recognize the basic languages, or web domains for that matter? :p
 

zagood

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oh...my...god.

I guess the internets are serious business. I'll keep my humor elsewhere.

EDIT: oh, didn't realize it was jcm. I disregard everything that guy says anyway.

-z
 

jonmcc33

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Originally posted by: zagood
oh...my...god.

I guess the internets are serious business. I'll keep my humor elsewhere.

Dude, you are really screwed in the head. I don't even know you and you're always starting shit. Man up and stop acting like a 10 year old.
 

zagood

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Originally posted by: jonmcc33
Dude, you are really screwed in the head. I don't even know you and you're always starting shit. Man up and stop acting like a 10 year old.

*cough*
 

zagood

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Sorry we got off topic. My fault.

Did you get your order yet? Interested to see how those ramsinks fit under the S1.

-z