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Removing ram sinks

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I want to get an arctic cooling ati silencer 3 for my hercules 9800 pro but I need to remove the ram sinks first. How should I do this? Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.
 
i remeber a freind of mine puting his card in a baggy and sticking it in the freezer for 10 mintues and the ram sinks came off pretty easily.
 
It really depends on what they're attached with -- If you used thermal epoxy, they're better left alone - removing them would probably mean removing the RAM from the board as well. If they're attached with tape, I'd try the freezer trick... I've heard that if you apply a slight twisting pressure, they pop right off. Otherwise, you may try getting the card to really heat up and see if that doesn't loosen up the adhesive a little.

Hope that helps
 
jhtevans said:
It really depends on what they're attached with -- If you used thermal epoxy, they're better left alone - removing them would probably mean removing the RAM from the board as well. If they're attached with tape, I'd try the freezer trick... I've heard that if you apply a slight twisting pressure, they pop right off. Otherwise, you may try getting the card to really heat up and see if that doesn't loosen up the adhesive a little.

Hope that helps
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The card came with ram sinks already installed so I'm not sure what was used to attach them. Maybe I'm better off with the old VGA silencer.
 
You should also be aware that overclocking your 9800 Pro will probably result in display corruption (in the form of a sort of 'snow') in doom 3. Apparently, we've got it pinned down to a core overclock rather than memory. Don't know if that affects your decision.
 
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