Danger Den NV-78SLI vs. MAZE4GPU-SLI (Ram cooling perform. worth the $120??)

[jivetrky]

OK...I was originally set on the Danger Den NV-78SLI blocks because I wanted to be sure the RAM was cooled as well as possible for max OC's. But then I was thinking that maybe the $120 wouldn't give me THAT big of a difference in cooling. Any opinions here?
I'm just wondering if anyone out there has comparisons of the 2 sets of blocks (or I guess single comparison would be fine) they've personally seen....or a link to a site that has done so?

I know that Swiftech has the new MC14 BGA sinks ....I had thought that a couple of packs of those might be better than the OCZ's (at least according to swiftech they are) ....so even if I had to get 2 packs of those I'd still be saving a little chunk of change.

Input and any links would be helpful...since I can't seem to find any direct comparisons of the two. (Or ANY full card cooler vs. just GPU blocks)

[toddm27]

from what I've read they cool the gpu to about the same temps and the ram can be cooled just as good with ramsinks, I'm going with the maze4 myself. It will also bring the heat from the memory into the loop possibly lowering your cpu overclock.

[wannaoc]

The problem you have to watch for is the shape of your graphics card(s). Not in terms of reference design but is it perfectly flat? My card for example, due to a mixture of poor heatsink design and over tightening through the years has become warped. It has a slight bend so coolers like my silencer that cover the core and ram don't get good contact on both. I can get it to sit on the core perfect but the ram is almost impossible.

Plus unless you are going to vmod the ram on it you probably wont see a gain from w/c it over something like the swifty ramsinks. Save the money imo.

[jkresh]

The coolign difference does not appear to be that much but remember you most likely need to sets of ramsinks per card and at 10-20 each that means the price difference isint that much, plus inorder to attach ramsinks you basicaly have to glue them, as the tape they come with doesnt realy work. Also you could try waiting for consumers block though nobodoy knows when it will be done).

[toddm27]

The coolign difference does not appear to be that much but remember you most likely need to sets of ramsinks per card and at 10-20 each that means the price difference isint that much, plus inorder to attach ramsinks you basicaly have to glue them, as the tape they come with doesnt realy work. Also you could try waiting for consumers block though nobodoy knows when it will be done).
As far as the price difference even with spending the extra 20 bucks for ramsinks, your still only at 66.00 compared to 125.00, I haven't heard much on the ramsinks not sticking though, some good tape should solve that and if cooling a 7800gtx, you'll need ramsinks for the top of the card in addition to the nvsilencer as it only cools the bottom ram.

[JustChill]

there is good tape to use woth ramsink, all you have to do is take off the adheive that is on it (ocz ramsink for example and use the good tape and you will be all set. I found this tape through a link on this forum and it has better thurmal properties than as5 so it is the ****nity. I don recal the sight I got it from although I will try to dig it up... for now the labeling on the back of the tape is " sekisui #5760" and it was ike 4$ for like 3' of it, that is more than I will use in a life time. If you realy have that much troubl finding it I will send you one of my strips as I said more than I could ever use...

[Kil4Thril]

Someone is selling it in the classifieds forum. I need some of that to prevent a repeat of my x850xt catastrophe. :(

[thorilan]

you will hit a slightly higher oc with water cooled ram as apposed to using ram sinks but the price to performance diference is really high. now if you have your card/s on a seperate loop just for them the price performance gap gets a little narrower but you wouldnt care about that anyways if you have a single loop just for video cards