4850 semi ghetto cooling mod

[Modred189]

SO I had these old VGA-ram heat sinks laying around, and I realized that my 4850's do not have naked ram chips to cool. But the cooler's backplate thing gets hella-hot, so why not attach the sinks to it!

I have no idea what kind of affect they are having, but they get crazy hot now too, so I can only imagine they help...

 

[GonzoP]

Almost looks custom fit. What did you use to adhere them?

 

[tvdang7]

could you do a before and after temperature comparison?

 

[Drakan290]

Want to see ghetto mod... I made a plexi bridge and used double sided tape to attach 2 60mm fans to my accelero s1. knocked temps to 50c full load with a 700/1165 OC

 

[Modred189]

Almost looks custom fit. What did you use to adhere them?

The sinks came with adhesive tape attached to them already. Just used that.
These are them, I got them for a dollar:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1272577

could you do a before and after temperature comparison?

Sorry, I didn't.

 

[2wiced]

couldn't we just use ram heat sinks and attach them to the cross square thing on the back of the card? I have some spare ram heat sinks... wonder if i can stick some somewhere now lol.

 

[Modred189]

...rofl. That's what I did...

 

[2wiced]

did it help?