ramsink placement?

Pandam00nium

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I just got my accelero s1 rev. 2, and when I took off my XFX 8800GT heatsink I was confuzzled after placing the 8 ram sinks on the card. Shouldn't there be about 4 more to use on the right side of the core? The blue circle is where I usually see people placing more ramsinks...

I apologize for the horrendous pictures. I took them with flash on for some reason, and I had to reinstall the card back into the case. I took a picture of both sides. Am I suppose to place addition ramsinks on the ones circled red? This card design seems different from the pictures I saw that had aftermarket ramsinks installed.. Any help is appreciated. x.x

 

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JamesXP

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Yes people put heatsinks on the mosfets, just to keep the hot little buggers warm...

 

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are the ones in the red circles the mosfets? or the 2 between the ram and the caps on the front side?>.>;

 

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I marked the mosfets for you

 

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Hazaro

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They don't need HS, just a little bit of airflow and they are fine.

The only ones you want to worry (if you want to worry) about are the two main vRegs on the back of the card.

 

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Hazaro said:

They don't need HS, just a little bit of airflow and they are fine.

The only ones you want to worry (if you want to worry) about are the two main vRegs on the back of the card.

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Yeah they do, I have tested it with and without sinks and my OC was lower without

 

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Ah okay so they are the ones in the red circles. Thanks folks.

 

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Brolloks said:

Yeah they do, I have tested it with and without sinks and my OC was lower without

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ygpm

 

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• Apr 24, 2008

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Here is some info for you:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2568397#post2568397

 

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Also notice on that pic in the link that the hottest spot # 3 is in fact the back of the card where that mosfet marked as # 10 sits on the front of the card, so the cooler the front mosfet is kept the better.

 

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jason4207

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Is that a non-reference design? It hard to tell from the blurry pics, but it looks different to me.

 

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Brolloks said:

Also notice on that pic in the link that the hottest spot # 3 is in fact the back of the card where that mosfet marked as # 10 sits on the front of the card, so the cooler the front mosfet is kept the better.

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bad link.

And I can provide better pics later on when I receive the ramsinks I ordered from wluk.

 

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Melan said:

bad link.

And I can provide better pics later on when I receive the ramsinks I ordered from wluk.

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Fixed the LINK, thanks