Crazy idea for homemade ramsinks for video cooling!!!

We all know that set of 8 Ramsinks for a Radeon 9700 Pro for example can cost well over $20, such as the tweakmonster ones.

Well, I had a crazy idea. A penny (yes, a 1 cent coin!) is made from copper, so, why not get a dremel and buff the surface nice and smooth and stick it on to each piece of ram on the video card with a thermal adhesive!? Copper will cool the chips, heck you can even stack two pennies on top of each other and stick them to each other. If you have a side cooling fan on your case this will help to dissipate the heat even further!

Just a thought!

Najib

Great idea almost. A penny is 90% zinc though. You could cannibalize the heatsinks out of an old psu and cut them up.

i think it would hold the heat more so than throw out the heat.

I'm actually gonna make sure of these from an old P1 heatsink I have laying around:)

Its been done before. :)

I think the website that did it was like ghettomods.com or something like that.. :p

The pennies are awefully small to be of any use.

Get some basic passive anodized aluminum HS's, cut them to bits and lap them good. They work real good.

or at least get old pennies that are pure copper...or better yet, old dimes that are almost pure silver.

That would have been the afrotech mod; so, so, ghetto it hurts.

http://www.afrotechmods.com/ram.htm

Pre-1982 pennies are 95% copper according to the afro guy. I doubt you would get any better performance than using an old heatsink, if not worse.

edit: wrong link :o