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Jetster220

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I am trying to water cool my 8800GTX, and as everyone knows you have to cover all the memory and mofsets with sinks. Well I bought the Swift-Tech MC88 memory cooling kit, and it freakin sucks. They dont stick for crap, they were falling off all over the place before I could ever get the card back in the case. So now Im out my computer for at least another week until Newegg gets some more ram sinks from Zalman or Thermaltake back into stock that I know will stick and work. What a freakin project!!
 
What did you use to clean the RAM modules? If you use something like the Arcticlean, it works perfect. I ran my 8800gts 640 that way with no issues. I'm sure that they left residue on...kind of hard to stick that way ;)
 
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well if you got a Swift-tech MC88 memory cooling kit then you got ripped off, you should have gotten the Swiftech MC88 memory cooling kit instead, there not knockoffs.

but in all seriousness i am willing to bet you didn't clean the memory/mosfets off good enough. as the 3 people above me said, it works great for them. try some isopropyl alcohol and coffee filters to clean them up.
 
Yea, I guess I might not have cleaned them good enough, but it still just seems like those things were not very sticky at all. I was expecting them to stick like the ones that came with my Zalmans have, those things are really tacky and work well. Ill pick up some of that thermal tape you linked to and see if I can reuse some of my old sinks from my VF900 kit I have on my 7950GT that did itself in. Thanks for the help guys, apreciate it.
 
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You have to use sufficient force and hold it for 25 seconds for it to take effect. Clean is also very important.
 
i had problems with the thermal pads too. They have new ones on them that totally suck and swifttech said they were working on getting new ones. I just used thermal adhesive on them instead.
 
You didn't clean memory chips properly. It is not enough to wipe them off.
 
I had the same problem. There is a guy in the cooling classifieds who is selling Sekisui #5760. That is what I have used for years and it works flawlessly.
 
Yea, I thought I had cleaned them off alright with 91% Isoprophy alcohol. Those thermal pads were just not sticky whatsoever really.
 
The thermal pads do suck a lot. After 30 mintues of fiddling them, I just busted out the AS Adhesive Ceramique and those suckers are never coming off now!
 
Hipcrostino said:
i had problems with the thermal pads too. They have new ones on them that totally suck and swifttech said they were working on getting new ones. I just used thermal adhesive on them instead.
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That's good to know.

I would have trusted Swiftech because the pads on my MC14s worked great! They've been cooling my 7900GTX for 18 months now without problems ...
 
Knacko said:
I used AS5 with dabs of superglue in the corners. It's worked perfectly ever since.
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Bad idea.

As for them falling off. I had the same issue with high quality thermal tape on my 6800U a long time ago. My solution:
Clean them with high purity alcohol. Then, if they still fall off. I would CAREFULLY use a regular pencil eraser (NOT A PEN ERASER) to rub over the top of the chips, then clean them with alcohol again and make sure non of the eraser is left anywhere on the board.


Oh, and epoxying the heat sinks to the ram is a bad idea for two reasons:
1. they will NEVER come off with any amount of certainty that you won't take the ram chips with them
2. if you bump them, chances are you will knock the ram chips off the board.
 
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Evilsizer said:
^^
maybe he is refering to this stuff
http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/araltherad.html
since it is ceramic-based thermal adhesive..
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Alumina = ceramic based? I never knew the paste of the adhesive was ceramic based (and nothing on their site supports this information either, Céramique isn't ceramic based either according to their site).

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_alumina.htm
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_alumina_thermal_adhesive.htm
http://www.arcticsilver.com/ceramique.htm
 
SolidxSnake said:
Alumina = ceramic based? I never knew the paste of the adhesive was ceramic based (and nothing on their site supports this information either, Céramique isn't ceramic based either according to their site).

http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_alumina.htm
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_alumina_thermal_adhesive.htm
http://www.arcticsilver.com/ceramique.htm
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the link you post even says ceramic, This link here
http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_alumina_thermal_adhesive.htm

ARCTIC SILVER said:
Although lighter per set than Arctic Silver
Adhesive due to its use of ceramics rather than silver, each set of Arctic Alumina Adhesive
contains the same amount of adhesive by
volume as a set of Arctic Silver adhesive
and will cover the same area.
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