VGA Ramsinks

[Double Jesus]

Does anyone use 'em?
I have a 6800gt that I plan on watercooling and OCing and my waterblock definately won't cool the ram. The stock nvidia fan covers the ram (i don't know if it actually helps anything) but it's at least covered so I was wondering if I should add the ramsinks along with my waterblock. I was looking at the copper ocz or the vantec ones. Anyone have them? opinions? thanks!

 

[vega3000]

I use them, the copper OCZ ones, they work great. They are hot after I play games so I know they work.

 

[kubebot]

i'm using vantec ramsinks similair to the oczs. i had to use AC5 and a tiny bit of super glue to get them to stay,because the thermal tape was absolute crap ramsinks fell off.

 

[enforcer17]

If you don't already have the water block for it check out the DD or Innovatek blocks that cover the GPU and the RAM. They're a little pricey (around $120) but you'll probably get more out of the card than ramsinks.

 

[Asian Dub Foundation]

ocz copper... looks good, works great

 

[.xXLucidXx.]

when i watercooled my system i had a dd maze 4 on the gpu with no ramsinks and i couldnt play a game with the door on the case
if your waterblock dosent cover ram then you have to have something on them or u wont be able to play i got incredible lag

 

[magnetik]

I used the BGA Vantec ones too on my AIW 9700... I also used some AS Thermal Epoxy cause I found out the hard way a long time ago that thermal tape sucks. BGA's sure do get hot though when your playing a game.

here are some pics I took before I sold the card to DougLite (moderator)

 

[ryuji]

If you don't already have the water block for it check out the DD or Innovatek blocks that cover the GPU and the RAM. They're a little pricey (around $120) but you'll probably get more out of the card than ramsinks.

and you use water to cool somthing thats outputing like 10 watts of heat... why? and your sacraficing core cooling to do it, my maze4 gets 44C load at 6800U voltage,38 idle, thats with 160 watts worth of cpu heat being dumped into the loop i havent seen a nv-68 get anything comparable yet

when i watercooled my system i had a dd maze 4 on the gpu with no ramsinks and i couldnt play a game with the door on the case
if your waterblock dosent cover ram then you have to have something on them or u wont be able to play i got incredible lag

thats why you keep the stock ram sinks and have a bit of air flow over them from whatever,
i needed to bust a few fins off my ram sink to get the water block to fit nicely, engineering resin is so easy to break

 

[.xXLucidXx.]

my stock hsf for my vid card had no ramsinks it coverd the ram

 

[ryuji]

my stock hsf for my vid card had no ramsinks it coverd the ram

then you overclocked the ram too far on no heat sinks?

 

[ZOMGWTFBBQ]

basically bga ramsinks = good (if they're Vantec or OCZ)

If i had to pick the better ones, it'd probably be the OCZ cause they have like double the surface area of the Vantec

 

[keakdasneak]

cooper is the best.