[paupton]

I have a MSI GForce3 Ti 500. I went to water cooling with Becooling waterblock. Works great by the way. While changing over I decided to check out the memory heat sinks. I poped one right off and was surprised by how they are attached. They used regular scotch tape with glue on BOTH sides to attach the heat sinks to the memory. It stuck back on all right but I am wondering if the heat can transfer through that tape properly to dissipate heat. Should I mabe use thermal epoxy or something else?
Any one have any ideas on this? Is it a problem or should I just forget it.
If I know.... am I then responsible for knowing??????

[splateee]

My heatsinks were just glued on. I used artic silver epoxy to reattach them. Also used it when i replaced the stock fan with a golden orb. Just be careful when applying it, make sure you dont get any on the traces. You dont need to much, just a thin layer will work, it only has a few minutes of workable time, so just do one sink at a time.
Good luck

[Silversinksam]

Just a suggestion but Arctic Alumina Adhesive is much safer to use on Ramsinks, being ceramic based and non capacitive.

[paupton]

hadnt thought of that, but thanks for the suggestion and advice. Non conductive is a very good thought.