Graphics RAM cooling

How vital is RAM cooling on a 7800 GT?

I was just installing a maze 4 GPU block on my 7800 GT along with some BGA ramsinks. Finding that 2 of the ramsinks needed shortening to allow space for the tubing. While filing the ram sinks down I slipped and covered one of the ram sinks' adhesive pads in copper filings rendering it pretty much useless.

Does a 7800 GT /need/ RAM cooling? Or will I get away with running it with 2 of the heatsinks missing until I can get hold of some more?

Quick reply would be appreciated.

 

It will run OK without, but they will get very hot and I'd advise clocking them down, especially if you start to experience artifacts. You could get away without two of them, but I'd try to procure some replacements ASAP.

 

hmm, what sort of case cooling have you got? ie, is it good? if you can put a 'ghetto' fan facing onto the memory on the card that should do it i reckon

 

I phoned a local computer repair/building place. They have some thermal adehsive. Will this be ok for holding the sinks on to the ram?

Ive got to be there before 6 though.

 

ASTE will make the things damn near impossible to remove, so if you plan on never having to take them off again, i'd look for some other sort of solution

 

So annoyed. Im going to have to buy a set of eight ram sinks to replace one and then have seven that are useless without the eighth.

Guess im without a PC for 48 hours then

Thanks for your input guys.

 

Ok, panic over:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=6860329684

Im guessing that will be ok if I cut it to size and stick it on the bottom of the RAM sink.

Or am I just better off dumping the £11 and gettign another set of ram sinks :/?

 

Just hurry it up and buy something like ramsinks; you never know, they can probably come in handy for something else.

 

well, if your watercooling the gpu, you could always go for somthing like this:

http://www.alphacool.de/xt/product_info.php?products_id=311&cPath=5_18_291

can get it in the UK, only £60 odd hehe

 

My god what a mess of tubes!!, not exactly the neatest solution around!!

 

Bought one of those pieces of thermal tape. Should come on thursday, which is the same time as the ramsinks would have arrived but about £9 cheaper.

Ill have to alternate from my mums PC to my dads PC until then.

Yeah, that block is messy, I like the look of my maze 4.

 

If you really want to use this card now you can always do this:

 

Nah, ill wait. Give me plenty of time to get eveyrthing else finished.

 

You could always put the extra ram sinks onto some mosfets? might aswell use em if youv got 7 spare.