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OCZ Vdimm Booster..warning

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2Fresh

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Unless you have double sided mem you are kinda fucked. Well, on my board anyway. I can only run single sided in dimm 1 & 2, meaning the booster is in 3 and it it DOES NOT FIT!!! ....unless you take off the heatsinks, and then it gets so damn hot you get errors. (*#%^*(&#^(*@#%$(&^!%!~!@#@#ers!
 
These are the ones that get hot, verrrry hot. Like burn your finger type shit. And with no sinks on them, well...there you go. I tried putting a 120mm pointed at them, but it did not work. I am not sure what to do. I am selling my Corsair pc4000, it is double sided. Maybe I will try it and see how it goes, if I can get above 250 maybe I will keep it them, as that is what they can run at now just fine (250). I hate having locked multipliers.....you never know if it is your mem or your chip stopping you.

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if you sale that corsair oc4000, how much is it? how how much would you be willing to let it go for :-D
 
2Fresh said:
These are the ones that get hot, verrrry hot. Like burn your finger type shit. And with no sinks on them, well...there you go. I tried putting a 120mm pointed at them, but it did not work. I am not sure what to do.
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You can place small heatsinks (like this but a little smaller) on each of those regulators with a small nut and bolt (or thermal epoxy). Use a little thermal paste between the tab and heatsink if you use a nut and bolt.

You should be able to carefully bend each one up to attach heatsinks without damaging them. I wouldn't do that more than once though.
 
pxc said:
You can place small heatsinks (like this but a little smaller) on each of those regulators with a small nut and bolt (or thermal epoxy). Use a little thermal paste between the tab and heatsink if you use a nut and bolt.

You should be able to carefully bend each one up to attach heatsinks without damaging them. I wouldn't do that more than once though.
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I have thought about searching for something of the sort, but they would have to be very small, as it they would right next to / alomst touching a stick of mem. I wonder if I can find any that small.
 
i havent read up on those devices, are they supposed to be really effective or is it all gimmick?
 
Not sure what you mean, but ther is nothing wrong with OCZ. I run OCZ EL 4400 mem. It is smokes about anything else out there right now...and with lifetime warranty, you cant go wrong ;)
 
He's just another OCZ hater. The misinformed...

OCZ products are at the top of the pack in almost every catagory. Check out the 2-2-2-2 PC3200 article @ Anandtech. Hell, even the creator of Lost Circuits now works for them.
 
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