Installed Ramsinks on my 8500LE

Oddly enough i couldn't find any posts to verify if ramsinks really work.

I have a 6 month old Sapphire 8500LE stock clocked at 250/500 with 4ns
Eton memory. Using Radeonator LE I could push it to 310/570 without
artifacts using 3dmark 2001SE as the indicator. 3dMark seemed to produce
more artifacts than my other games. the nature test which produced the
most artifacts seemed to gradually develop visual flaws during the test
leading me to believe that it was a cooling problem. The ram chips felt
cool to the touch even after a lengthy BF 1942 session. After trying
faster GPU speeds I found that i could push the GPU to about 310 while
the memory was held back at 285 or 570DDR

skeptical ramsinks could improve my setup i chopped up an old aluminum
slot-1 heatsink into 4 pieces and lazily lapped it. This was mainly done
to get it clean and not particularly to get it flat (which is isn't). I
put some white thermal paste on the chips and used a credit card to
spread it and scrape it off. No paste was applied to the sinks. I took
the springs off of 4 plastic clothes pins and used them to clamp the
sinks on the card. I loaded up radeonator LE, pushed the memory 600 and
BF 1942 runs with no artifacts. Nature however will only tolerate 295
artifact free.

The sinks cooling 4 of the chips now feel warm after use.
I wonder how far i could go had i did a better job of lapping and
applying the paste.





K7S5A
duron 1100
no volt mods.

They don't.



On Sat, 28 Jun 2003 16:06:13 GMT, Joe <abuse.DeleteThis@mts.net> wrote:

 >Oddly enough i couldn't find any posts to verify if ramsinks really work.
 >
 >I have a 6 month old Sapphire 8500LE stock clocked at 250/500 with 4ns
 >Eton memory. Using Radeonator LE I could push it to 310/570 without
 >artifacts using 3dmark 2001SE as the indicator. 3dMark seemed to produce
 >more artifacts than my other games. the nature test which produced the
 >most artifacts seemed to gradually develop visual flaws during the test
 >leading me to believe that it was a cooling problem. The ram chips felt
 >cool to the touch even after a lengthy BF 1942 session. After trying
 >faster GPU speeds I found that i could push the GPU to about 310 while
 >the memory was held back at 285 or 570DDR
 >
 >skeptical ramsinks could improve my setup i chopped up an old aluminum
 >slot-1 heatsink into 4 pieces and lazily lapped it. This was mainly done
 >to get it clean and not particularly to get it flat (which is isn't). I
 >put some white thermal paste on the chips and used a credit card to
 >spread it and scrape it off. No paste was applied to the sinks. I took
 >the springs off of 4 plastic clothes pins and used them to clamp the
 >sinks on the card. I loaded up radeonator LE, pushed the memory 600 and
 >BF 1942 runs with no artifacts. Nature however will only tolerate 295
 >artifact free.
 >
 >The sinks cooling 4 of the chips now feel warm after use.
 >I wonder how far i could go had i did a better job of lapping and
 >applying the paste.
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >
 >K7S5A
 >duron 1100
 >no volt mods.<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->