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BorgBob · 02-05-2003, 07:15 PM

I want to use a Swiftech MCW-50T pelted water block to cool my ATI 9700pro. Problem is, I want it to cool the RAM as well. Why shouldn't the RAM get as much benefit as the core? BGA heatsinks simply won't do.

My thought was on whether some sort of heat spreader couldn't be fashioned. Initially, I was considering buying a Tyan Tachyon board, ripping the fan off, and attaching the waterblock to the RAM + core heat spreader that's already there. However, I read about how that spreader doesn't make that great a contact with the RAM and decided to blow it off.

Here is the question. Is there some way to take sheet copper, bend it to contact RAM and core, mount the water block so that core and block sandwich this sheet, and have it work out?

I'm thinking of copper that is flexible, and off clamping it while the glue on the RAMs dries as a way of ensuring good RAM contact.

But will the copper carry the heat well enough over that much distance, or will ramsinks work just as well and be less trouble?

Is there some similar technology that could be made to work? For example, would soldering a copper pipe with water help move the heat?

Any ideas from you cooling scientists out there?

02-05-2003, 07:15 PM	#1
BorgBob Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Northern CA Posts: 7	Question for the Gurus of Cool(ing) I want to use a Swiftech MCW-50T pelted water block to cool my ATI 9700pro. Problem is, I want it to cool the RAM as well. Why shouldn't the RAM get as much benefit as the core? BGA heatsinks simply won't do. My thought was on whether some sort of heat spreader couldn't be fashioned. Initially, I was considering buying a Tyan Tachyon board, ripping the fan off, and attaching the waterblock to the RAM + core heat spreader that's already there. However, I read about how that spreader doesn't make that great a contact with the RAM and decided to blow it off. Here is the question. Is there some way to take sheet copper, bend it to contact RAM and core, mount the water block so that core and block sandwich this sheet, and have it work out? I'm thinking of copper that is flexible, and off clamping it while the glue on the RAMs dries as a way of ensuring good RAM contact. But will the copper carry the heat well enough over that much distance, or will ramsinks work just as well and be less trouble? Is there some similar technology that could be made to work? For example, would soldering a copper pipe with water help move the heat? Any ideas from you cooling scientists out there? __________________ Resistance is futile, you will be assimilated...