Crazy idea for homemade ramsinks for video cooling!!!

[najibs]

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

[chowpappy]

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

[angomeka]

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

[XP1800]

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

[Mrfreddio55]

Its been done before.

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

[speedstream5621]

The pennies are awefully small to be of any use.

[talldude]

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

[chowpappy]

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

[Tekime]

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