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Originally Posted by kusojiji
I put heatsinks on everything that creates heat. I have them on my video memory, my power mosfets, southbridge, scsi raid controller, gigabit lan controller, etc. My thoughts are that I am trying to remove as many fans as possible to reduce noise. This usually ends up with reduced flow throughout the case. I only add an extra fan over the memory as they usually benefit from it a lot. The rest is just precautionary.
The thing about the video card is that the memory on the gpu side usually got cooled by the gpu cooler and the memory on the other side got cooled by the processor or northbridge cooler. If you put a waterblock on the gpu and processor, there will be decreased flow over the vid mem. Heatsinks would help.
Tobyed, the heatercore smells bad? or does it suck?
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Ah, yeah, sorry. The heatercore smells bad ! I am sure with regard to performance its gonna be sweet ... A friend of mine whos a car mechanic was well impressed with it he said its probably chemicals they used to test the heatercore. He did give me a funny look when I said it was for my computer ... "Hmmm, water, electricity ?!?!". Smell wearing off now ...
The heatsinks on the graphics card I got 2 4 packs of tweakmonsters, bit dissappointed with a) the size (they are square, my memory chips are oblong), and b) they seem quite thick, I must be spoilt, I imagined the fins would have been thinner like the Zalman flower I am currently using for my CPU.
Lastly, I'm lazy and bought a UV shroud (I haven't got the tools to make my own), is the one I've got too small (see attachment) ? This may be ovious but to us newbes, how is the shroud attached to the heatercore, obviously I'm not gonna drill holes through this bad boy ?
Attachment is in my Attach Files, dont seem to be able to see it in Preview ...