- Joined
- Apr 21, 2001
- Location
- Las Vegas, NV
[rant]
Spent 2 hours with an overclocking buddy (and member) Thundr7 modding my GF4 Ti4600.
We ripped off the old heatsink, cleaned up the GPU, made some ram sinks from a couple old Pentium heatsinks, lapped them, lapped an older P3 retail heatsink (and fan), and attached them all using arctic alumina (strong stuff I must say).
Stock overclock was 315/735
New overclock is 325/735
I have said time and time again that these modifications (on air at least) are a waste of time. I'm worth more than 2 hours time for 10mhz gain on the gpu. To add insult to injury the ramsinks didn't improve the overclock one bit. Although I secretly hoped to gain a little something more than 10mhz by spending the time doing it, I instead ended up proving my own point.
The good news is that it only cost Thundr7 a little of his arctic alumina and a few pieces of skin. There are those among us that spend $20-35 to get an equivelent heatsink/fan and ramsinks from an online overclocking store or radio shack. For the 3% gain I say "No Thanks!"
[/rant]
Spent 2 hours with an overclocking buddy (and member) Thundr7 modding my GF4 Ti4600.
We ripped off the old heatsink, cleaned up the GPU, made some ram sinks from a couple old Pentium heatsinks, lapped them, lapped an older P3 retail heatsink (and fan), and attached them all using arctic alumina (strong stuff I must say).
Stock overclock was 315/735
New overclock is 325/735
I have said time and time again that these modifications (on air at least) are a waste of time. I'm worth more than 2 hours time for 10mhz gain on the gpu. To add insult to injury the ramsinks didn't improve the overclock one bit. Although I secretly hoped to gain a little something more than 10mhz by spending the time doing it, I instead ended up proving my own point.
The good news is that it only cost Thundr7 a little of his arctic alumina and a few pieces of skin. There are those among us that spend $20-35 to get an equivelent heatsink/fan and ramsinks from an online overclocking store or radio shack. For the 3% gain I say "No Thanks!"
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