Memory chip cooling

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isma

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I have a x850xt with the stock double-slot cooling that I plan to replace shortly, because it's too noisy and I want to overclocked the card.

If I go with a water cooling solution, is it bad to not have any airflow over the ramsink wether at stock memory speed or overclocked ? Or is it better to stay with a double-slot design like the Artic Cooling ATI Silencer ?

As far as I know most modern video card does have the memory chips cooled by the same heatsink as the GPU, just like my x850xt. But I like the fact that a water cooling system is a universal device that fits on any video card.

Thanks for your advices.
 
yeah, you'll want to have some airflow going over the ramsinks. If you don't, they'll just get extremely hot and won't really dissipate the heat.
 
OCZ makes copper RAM heat sinks... They work pretty good. I have them on my 7800 gtx 512's
 
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