Tweakmonster Vs DIY

[Pixel]

OK im trying to buy really good ram sinks and from what i noticed tweakmonster is the best....but they are expensive is there a DIY that gives the same or better performance help i need to OC!

[Bender]

Ram sinks probably won’t impress you unless you have a lot of airflow over them. I suggest hacking up a large sink rather than spending a fortune on micro sized copper sinks.

[Mustanley]

I don't even think the tweakmonster ramsinks are really made from copper. I bought a four pack of them and noticed that the base was very uneven. So I lapped them down to 1000 grit and before they became flat the base color turned copper colored. That color was very thin and by the time they were really flat, the color had changed to more of a brass color. Look at this pick of them next to a real copper 1c cpu cooler that I lapped and stated grinding into smaller heatsinks. The color says it all.

http://65.81.66.27/tower/ramsinks.jpg

[Pixel]

be specific ;) i need to know which heatsink to hack up to use instead of tweak monster....i was thinking of using the same thing i have on my nb on my mosfets and vidcard that zalmon thingy

[thlnk3r]

I bought a set of these http://www.svcompucycle.com/oczbgarachhe.html

they seem to work pretty well.

gl :cool:

[The_Jizzler]

just go to your local puter store and look for the cheapest cpu cooler there. i get the cheapies from 5-10 bucks. then just hack it up to whatever size you need.

[Pixel]

im looking for perforamance! im sure others work better than some.... im asking for specific brands and stuff

[Pixel]

my friend works for ocz he said tweakmonsters are bad and im not giving his name kuz obviously he would be kut!

[thomasysl]

I am using the coolermaster copper ramsink on my 9500np. Managed to get 5mhz more.

CHeers

[Strida]

Just use your stock AMD HS and chop it up so it fits on the ram, stick it on, and get a good fan to blow on them and you're set.

[thlnk3r]

yeah ive heard bad reviews on the tweakmonster sinks. The ones i bought from svc arent the same, all though they are ocz brand but i think they're just from a giant hs chopped up in bga size.

[Pixel]

at frys they have cooler master dreamer or whatever it takes 3200+ bartons or whatever...10$ i heard it performs close to a vantec aeroflow

[Damian]

Is the heatsink even, though? Not all heatsinks can just be cut up into eighths.

Find a Pentium heatsink and cut it up. IMHO anything else is really overkill.

[Pixel]

i have no idea and i dont think my mosfets and ram are the same size either.... o wait! ok you know how when you buy ram heat spreaders? and they com with ram sinks that NO ONE uses...i think ill use those....

[Since87]

Originally posted by Mustanley
I don't even think the tweakmonster ramsinks are really made from copper. I bought a four pack of them and noticed that the base was very uneven. So I lapped them down to 1000 grit and before they became flat the base color turned copper colored. That color was very thin and by the time they were really flat, the color had changed to more of a brass color. Look at this pick of them next to a real copper 1c cpu cooler that I lapped and stated grinding into smaller heatsinks. The color says it all.

http://65.81.66.27/tower/ramsinks.jpg

Glad I saw this. I'd just ordered these ramsinks from Cooltechnica yesterday. I was able to call and cancel my order.

It was painful to pay $24 dollars for them when I thought they were made of copper. No way I was going to pay that much for brass. These are a scam in my opinion, because aluminum has better thermal conductivity than brass.

I've got some copper sheet (maybe 1 mm) that I'll just bend up, and lap, to make myself some ramsinks.

[El<(')>Maxi]

Definately not copper.......*******s. They don't have enough surface area to be very good anyways.

Hey Musty, where are you putting those sinks your makin?
I always wondered about cutting up a skieved hs......seems like they would bend way to easy when cutting them up.

I've always used old P1 hs's. They work great.

:p

edit--you mean I can't say ******* in here?

[Mustanley]

Originally posted by El&lt;(')&gt;Maxi
Hey Musty, where are you putting those sinks your makin?
I always wondered about cutting up a skieved hs......seems like they would bend way to easy when cutting them up.

Those are going on the BGA chips on my 9800np. Let me tell you, the fins on this heatsink are STIFF. No chance of them bending accidently. The base of the heatsink doesn't look very thick, but I went through 3 regular dremel grinding discs to make those two little grooves. I need to get some reinforced grinding discs and try again.

[q149]

Ramsinks ussually give you like 2mhz if your lucky.. I think they are pretty useless without a vmod to go with them. I use the ones that come with this (http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/thcomecokit.html).. you get free copper heatspreaders with them if you want them, you have to do some cutting though. Also OCZ makes some cheaper ramsinks and you can get the TweakMonster ones from the site in this link for cheap.

[thlnk3r]

Here's a review I found on the Tt copper memory kit, apparently they aren't copper (according to this review).
thermaltake copper memory kit (http://www.tweakers.com.au/articles/cooling/tt_coppersinks/page1.asp)

[Chowdy]

Technically, couldn't a company make ramsinks and say "Copper Ramsinks!" and constructed them only composed of 1% copper and 99% aluminum and not be in legal danger? Only if they said "100% copper!" would it be false advertising? Am i right? Or do these companies have more to lose than their reputations.

[thlnk3r]

sheesh i dunno...I'm thinking, if that kit was 100% copper, it would be a whole lot more then $10 hehe.

[Pixel]

yea i got the coolermaster xdream amd hsf and im gonna slice it up pretty soon and oc and tell u how far it goes....pstripe right? or i heard theres like rrage or something i dunno i have a 9700pro aiw. i got pretty good airflow so hopefuily it will be dandy

[thlnk3r]

pixel here's a link to some of the files the ati user's oc with...
http://rage3d.com/files/?page=files

[q149]

The heatspreaders are copper and the heatsinks are alum.

[Pixel]

kool thanks for the link ill be doing it some time soon