OCSystem ATI 9700 Video Card Cooling Kit

[Titanion]

I want to cool down my modded ATI 9500.

Should I buy ramsinks and a crystal orb or try this OCSystem ATI 9700 Video Card Cooling Kit? URLs below...

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XL Gold Ramsink Memory Heatsinks, 4 Pack
Gold anodized aluminum heatsinks for memory cooling. They fit any type of memory or chipset. LxWxH 22mm x 12mm x 11.7mm. 4pcs per package. Thermal tape or adhesive sold separately in the thermal compound category. $3.99

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Silver Ramsink Memory Heatsinks, 4 Pack
Small aluminum heatsinks for memory cooling. Fits any type of memory or chipset. LxWxH 16.5mm x 13.5mm x 9mm 4pcs per package. Thermal tape or adhesive sold separately in the thermal compound category. $3.99

http://www.bestbyte.net/Category.cfm?CategoryID=6&Keyword=

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OCSystem ATI 9700 Video Card Cooling Kit
Fits on ATI Radeon 9700 series video cards.
Material: Aluminum
Design by Thermaltake $15.00

http://www.ocsystem.com/ocati90vidca.html

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Is the fact that the cooling kit is designed by Thermaltake misleading? Is it any good? If not, I will go with the crystal orb and some ramsinks.

Could someone save me from having to pull out my ATI card and provide me with ram dimentions... that would be awesome.

BTW, will AS3 hold those ramsinks on?

<font color=red><b>To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263

 

[scottchen]

The cooling kit's not bad, but there's a downside it's aluminum. While Crystal orb is copper based, if I were you I'd go with the ZM80C-HP, with the fan it could cool down the ram pretty nicely. Or saw up some really small heatsinks.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[Titanion]

Wow, it looks great after a quick search, but what will one of those cost shipped.

From what I have just read on the forum, as I have read before, the ram sinks do very little. I have my ram back at 297. 301 seemed like it was giving me some problems, so I dropped back to test it. I have the 3.3 not the 3.0 ns stuff. My GPU is currently at 324, and it is not by any means maxed out. For a cheaper solution, should I just get a Crystal Orb and be content with my ram at around 300. With a Crystal Orb, how far should I be able to push my GPU?

What do overclocked GPU artifacts look like as opposed to overclocked ram errors? Are they easy to tell apart?

<font color=red><b>To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263

 

[scottchen]

Just remembered, what kind of 9500 do you have, are they on the old PCB? Or the new ones, if it's the new ones then you can't use the cooling kit.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU

 

[Titanion]

No, I have the real deal, the red L-shaped pcb that mods to the nonpro 9700...

<font color=red><b>To reign is worth ambition though in Hell:
Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heav'n.</b></font color=red>
John Milton, <i>Paradise Lost</i>, II 262-263

 

[scottchen]

Then sure the cooling kit would be a great deal.

-Intel PIV 2.4C @ 3.84G -Asus P4P800 -OCZ Copper 2x256 4000EL memory @ 275mhz 3-4-4-8 -Sapphire 9800pro @ 490/780 -SB audigy -80G Maxtor Diamond Plus9 Ultra ATA-133 hdd -450 Enermax PSU