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Do "Name Brand" RAM sinks make any difference?

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I'm looking to overclock my 128mb ATI Radeon 9800 Pro.The GPU will be cooled via Arctic Cooling VGA Silencer. My question is, while looking into RAM sinks for it I've come across many different brands with varying prices depending on manufacturer and material. Does a name brand such as Vantec produce lower temperatures than say a Thermaltake sink? I'm looking into copper and and a pack of 8 Vantec costs 14.99 versus TT's 7.99.
 
good question.. i'm in the same situation as you.. would like to hear replies.... i think OCZ sinks are like 9.99. . also
 
I've used those "stick on" ram sinks. Im my opinion they suck ass.

I've took them off yesterday in light of my new cooling project. Me and a buddy are doign this:

Get an old copper heatsink your not using. (alot of us have them some do not) even a good thick P3 heatsink would work.

Get a hack saw, divided up the fins and cut out 8 ramsinks. Sand the edges down, and get the "artic adhesive" stuff. Mix with some Artic silver 5 so it can be taken off later if wanted. Attach them to the ramsinks.

I'll be doing this in a couple of days. I'll take some photo's if you want to wait and see how mine come out.

But the sticky pads suck in my experience.
 
You can take the sticky pads off right? Unfortunately I don't have any old heatsinks laying around :(
 
my buddy is buying a cheap $10 hsf from a local store to do it with. RadioShack does sell small heat sinks for electronics too. Many people around the net have ued them with success on the video cards also.

And yes, i guess you could remove the sticky pads. But those ones buy OCZ (only ones i would consider) are $6.99 + shipping from svc.com for a set of 4. My radeon needs 8 so thats $14.00 plus shipping. Shipping is usually about $5 and that puts you close to $20 plus the cost of the adhesive. It starts to add up. Look around at getting an older heatsink to cut up of buy a cheap one to cut up and then do it yourslef to make it work.

Regardless, check back and i'll show you some pics.
 
Kyle once posted, a long long time ago, that he used a hair dryer to melt the sticky stuff, either to reapply, or to remove it in it's melted state. Don't want to be misquoting Kyle there. but it works. :)
 
I have 2.8ns RAM @ 400MHz using OCZ RAM Sinks with sticky pads intact :cool:
 
Yep, hear ya. I just have the geeky sticky pads. and using Kyle's hair dryer thing, I move them around at will. They work fine like that.
 
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