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fx5900 ultra ram cooling

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shiltz

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May 8, 2003
i'm gona be water cooling my FX5900 ultra card soon, I was wondering what people would think would be better for cooling the ram

the stock reference heatsinks on the card:
pro: large suface area
cons: aluminum not copper and crappy TIM pad required, won't make contact without them from what I read (mod posible to make it work with AS3?) water block may not clear, not sure till I get the block in hand.

TweakMonster RAMsinks:
pro: better interface using artic silver epoxy
cons: signifcantly smaller surface area, the chrome plating over copper with reduce performance?

while the stock heatsinks have quite a few cons the really small surace area of the tweakmonster ones makes me worry about how well they would work.
 
I have one stock AMD heatsink I think, but that wouldn't be enough for all the ram chips I think, 16 total on the card.
 
i heard the tweakmonster ramsinks are one of the best performing passive coolers for graphics cards.
i think thouse ramsinks with a nice fan blowing near the card would give nice results
 
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