need cooling advice

[ghengisjam]

Ok I've got my 8500 up and running at stock core speeds. I've got powerstrip installed and everything's kosher. I want to oc my card now, but do NOT want to do it without heatsinks and a better hs/fan combo. Do any of you have suggestions for what I should put on this card for cooling? thanks

[Dissolved]

well tin or copper ramsinks from www.sidewindercomputers.com
and the cyrstal orb or the alpha 153u hsf will be great..
and use artic alumna epoxy for the ram sinks..

[FrozenInHI]

there's also a variety of heatsinks made for your card at a couple sites, browse around and see which one tickles your.....well, whatever, but look at these sites and go with a good gpu cooler, then if you got a bit of cash, pick up a thermaltake ramsink cooler kit, not the active cooler one, and use the heatsinks for the ram, you'll have to cut them to fit the radeon, but they work excellently, and as dissolved stated, use AS alumina, not the regular epoxy, it's conductive and tends to short stuff if it splooges out the side of the heatsink onto the pins of the ramchips.

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