Remember my RAM cooling mod?

Wow thats a kick *** mod. I always thought thats the fan even aftermarket ones were to small for the GPU. Mine always is hot as hell with the stock GPU and ram heatsinks. Now that I got my SLK 900 I might have to try this mod out myself. Good Stuff

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Originally posted by sgtgto
Hi:

Why no use nylon screws and nuts? No worry about shorts.

Gary

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Hmmm... Guess I didn't think of this and I also didn't see them... I saw some plastic screws and nuts, but they were all too big.

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Originally posted by Zy
Wow thats a kick *** mod. I always thought thats the fan even aftermarket ones were to small for the GPU. Mine always is hot as hell with the stock GPU and ram heatsinks. Now that I got my SLK 900 I might have to try this mod out myself. Good Stuff

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Yeah, the stock thing is a POS even compared to this P4 stock heatsink. Just larger area and a larger fan to cool it.

I'd be hesitant to try it with a SLK-900U. Firstly and most importantly, my heatsink and fan probably weighs ~250-300g. The SLK-900U alone is pushing 600g. Then add a 50-100g fan adn that could be too much for the AGP slot and retention bracket to hold. I wouldn't want to see a card rip off the mobo half way through playing a game or something.

Second, if it weren't too heavy, that's a pretty expensive piece of equipment. My heatsink was free and I said, hey, no loss if I totally pulverize it in my attempts. I know it'd suck if I destroyed a 900U though.

Just a few thoughts.;) :)

My card is now super heavy but its holding nicely. The nine total cooper caps I added added over 1 pound to the cards weight but its secure

Hmm.. that's probably true, but just looking at the SLK-900U and then the video card makes my legs shake..;) :D

If you got the retention clip in place though think how hard you'd have to pull for that to come undone. Please no one actually pull your card out with the clip on I'm quite sure its way more than a couple pounds of force.

Man seeing this makes me angry about buying a zalman heatpipe, even though I got it for cheap, it blocks two ram chips so I can't put heatsinks on them. I bet the cooling upgrade it about the same (with a fan blowing on the zalman).

Is a p4 heatsink bigger than an athlon barton heatsink?

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I believe it is. I think the stock Barton heatsinks at 60x60mm base right? If so, you don't even need to do cutting cause 60x60 is what I had to cut mine down to so that it fit.