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Element-Xero
10-30-01, 04:19 PM
I'm just curious. I was going to take off my thermal taped ramsinks from my gforce, lap them up nice, and attach with epoxy and nanotherm blue t-grease. Before I do, will this actually increase my rams performance? If so, what kind of gain as far as clock speed can I expect if it is at 465 right now? (factory is 400)
]-[itman
10-30-01, 04:38 PM
Although I have never done this I hear cooling ram does help but not by much without getting better heatsinks or having a fan blowing on the ram. Doing what you said I think would help but not give you a big increase. As I said i'm not experienced in this so if someone has done this they'd know more than me.
funnyperson1
10-30-01, 04:59 PM
you may get 470 without artifacts, but i wouldnt expect much more..sorry....
Morphoius
10-30-01, 05:10 PM
When i changed the heatsinks on my GF3 i was only able to get about 10 more mhz, but the range where i would get artifacts and not freeze increased from about 5 mhz to 35 mhz. If you could find a way to voltmod your memory then in conjunction with the heatsinks you would see a much larger proformance increase.

Heat causes crashes.
higher frequencies without enough voltage causes artifacts.
Element-Xero
10-30-01, 09:42 PM
if anyone has ever heard of voltmodding a gf2pro, please post it cuz I'd like to know what it would entail..
Oni
10-30-01, 10:08 PM
Originally posted by Element-Xero
if anyone has ever heard of voltmodding a gf2pro, please post it cuz I'd like to know what it would entail..

You could try increasing your VIO, but only by a little bit, or you might fry stuff. When you increas your VIO, you increase voltage of your RAM, your PCI bus and you AGP bus, so just be sure you wanna do this first.
Pinky
10-30-01, 10:16 PM
Some people swear by them.

I personally don't think it makes enough of a difference to be worth the time... the GPU is typically the hottest single component on the card which is why more attention is placed there. Personally, when Hercules released the Ultra with those blue heatsinks, it was for looks and not functionality.

If it's a concern, do I what I do/did/done and situate things so there's an intake fan blowing across your video card... you can see how high I have my Radeon above stock with smart use of circulation alone.
Zuck Gou :)
10-30-01, 11:37 PM
Originally posted by Pinky
Some people swear by them.

I personally don't think it makes enough of a difference to be worth the time... the GPU is typically the hottest single component on the card which is why more attention is placed there. Personally, when Hercules released the Ultra with those blue heatsinks, it was for looks and not functionality.

If it's a concern, do I what I do/did/done and situate things so there's an intake fan blowing across your video card... you can see how high I have my Radeon above stock with smart use of circulation alone.

I'm doing the same thing. I hear mixed results with ramsinks, so I decided it wasnt worth the effort and just made sure there was good airflow around the card. Even 10 mhz really isnt too much.

Most people do them for fun more than functionality from other forums I read.
Element-Xero
10-31-01, 07:51 AM
Hey If I can get 10 more mhz or even 5, I'm all for it. I will take any amount of performance gain. Im a hardcore tweaker. Gonna buy me some epoxy at radioshack today. :)