AS5 on memory?

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JediK

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I have an EVGA 7950GT 256mb card and am going to be replacing the stock thermal compound on the GPU with AS5. When I took off the HSF I noticed the memory had thermal pads attached to the HSF. Would it be ok to take those off and put AS5 on the memory?
 
There might be a gap if you took off those thermal pads. Make sure everything lines up nice and tight before you do apply AS5.
 
Probably not. AS5 and other greases are to fill the air gaps in very tiny spaces. Think about your CPU mount. They mount with significant force, the grease fills in all the tiny air gaps due to imperfections between the surfaces being mated together.

You aren't going to have such a solid mating and pressure out around the edges of your video card where the heatsink and the memory ICs are.

I wouldn't.
 
Yea, it looks like there might be a gap so I won't chance it. Hopefully I can get a few more mhz after applying the AS5 to the gpu. How hard is it to volt mod one of these cards? lol
 
If you are just using the little mosfet coolers that come with the Zalman based products, then yeah, AS5 will hold them in place. If you are using a cooler that covers the RAM, then you have to use the pads.
 
JC316 said:
If you are just using the little mosfet coolers that come with the Zalman based products, then yeah, AS5 will hold them in place. If you are using a cooler that covers the RAM, then you have to use the pads.
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I am just using the stock cooler that covers the ram. At least its all copper. :p
 
not hard to volt mod at all, look for a conductive ink pen mod and it will take you 5 minutes to probably break 700-725 on the core
 
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