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Ram sinks...

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Khanmots

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I'm trying to figure out how I want to go about attaching ram sinks to my vid cards ram. The cooler I'm looking at getting (Accelero S1) has sinks included, however the thermal tape that comes on them seems to really really really suck.

I'm wanting to avoid a permanent attachment... so I think that excludes pure thermal epoxy (shame, that'd be the easy solution)

So... is there a decent thermal tape out there?

Or would I be best off buying a thermal epoxy and a thermal paste and experimenting with various mix-ratios? (I've seen people saying to use ratios varying from 30/70 epoxy/paste to 80/20....)
 
Two of the more popular methods.

use whatever "normal" thermal paste you prefer, then while holding the ramsink down on the chip, put a small dot (get the smallest glue gun you can find) of hot melt glue at each corner. The second method is the same but put with a toothpick a small dab of the epoxy at each corner and then sit there holding the ramsink down and not moving for 5-10 minutes. Careful use of an exacto knife or razor blade takes them right off with no mess.
 
Thanks!

I'd seen people mentioning using superglue, but I wasn't sure it'd handle expansion cycles well; hadn't thought of epoxying just the corners. Sounds like it should work :)
 
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