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Kenny

Kenny

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Your signature about pennies as RAM heatsinks.... do you mean it????


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Kenny



think about it..... 28p for heatsinking.... wow! (plus the thermal paste that we all have several tubes of lying around....)
 
hahaha!!!

i was thinking whether it would work too the other day but you would have to use thermal adhesive not paste and if it messes up the chances of prising the penny away from the chip without busting it are pretty slim...
 
yea was thinkin about the thermal adhesive as well. I have an old stick of 128 kickin about somewhere....I may try it. Or maybe my memory doesnt need it that much....
 
unless you are pumping excess volts through it it came without sinks for a reason!!!!

I have heard that ramsinks actually increase the temperature...

go ahead, try it and TAKE SOME PHOTOS lol!
 
Course it will work, its a very conductive metal, most good heatsinks use it nowadays!

you must make sure you polist the coin very highly though with brasso so there like mirrors, this will only take about 5 mins per coin.

Then you just use some good ole thermal paste to stick em on, and viola! The cheapest heatsinks in the world!
 
copper may be the most conductive metal around but using thermal paste wont keep the 2 surfaces in contact!
 
Is not the surface of a penny coin uneven? Will that not mean, then, that the surface of the memory chip will not be in 100% contact with it's thermal cooler? I think so. No matter how much you polish it, it will still not be a flush fit.

And Arctic Silver make a thermal adhesive for fixing heatsinks, it's a thermally conductive epoxy where you mix the two pastes, much like Araldite. It works well but it is sort of permanent.

Just throwing me twopennorth into the mix :D
 
apparently its an offence to deface anything with the queens napper on it so u cant grind her mug off. But maybe no-one`s gonna check your memory chips for such an act of anarchy.....
 
want a solution?

get some US pennies - not such a bump and more "memory chip" sized!

dont think it's illegal to rub lincolns mug off (or whoever on pennies) lol
 
Kenny said:
apparently its an offence to deface anything with the queens napper on it so u cant grind her mug off. But maybe no-one`s gonna check your memory chips for such an act of anarchy.....
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lol :D

cop that Liz.... hehe

Heatsinks sold by computer parts suppliers for RAM are expensive. Heat sinks to suit IC's/chips from suppliers such as RS/Farnell/CPC/Maplins are not expensive. And they fit.

But really, whose RAM has ever got more than slightly warm to the touch, even when overclocked? In my experience, it just don't get hot.
 
You ever felt OCZ Ram with 3v running through it? Is it hot? I mean, really hot? Ever considered that the OCZ copper plating is just a marketing ploy to make it appear 'serious' to overclockers and just relieve them of their hard earned cash?

Well, it was just a thought I had in a more cynical moment :D

Of course, I'm wrong, absolutely wrong..... (don't wanna burst no-one's bubble, after all, lol )
 
christopherpostill said:
never run my RAM at more than default.

figured more volts means more heat!!!
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I've 'overclocked' RAM before, it's never got more than mildly warm, even with increased voltage. All memory in my systems is stock atm though, I really don't feel the need to overclock with my current setups.

And yes, more volts = more heat. It's all down to Ohm's law, really, current = heat. And all the rest of it, lol. Watt? Watt?
 
well ohms law i think states that you can put a current through a wire but the more current you put through, the more resistance you get. The breaking point of that wire will be increased with some kind of cooling but the amount of electrons flowing through one certain amount of space causes a lot of friction therefore a lot of heat


something like that anyways.

my RAM does get fairl warm actually on stock voltage. Took it out right after turning PC off once. Too scared to up the volts - not sure why it would need them anyway. They are rated for 2.9v with the lifetime warranty.
 
Sorry, it aint ohms law for that. ohms law is V=I.R. if the current goes up, the voltage must go up to balance the quation. Also, if V= ((resistivity. length of wire. current)/Cross sectional area) of the wire, the resistivity and current can increase or decrease indepent of each other, but V has to change in the same way to compensate again. If current increases though, the conductivity of the metal (the wire) might increase. I may have made an arse of myself there, and got my "facts" mixed up, but i think i`m on the right track. (i`m butchering an electronics degree at uni). My head hurts
 
Kenny mate, I just got back from the pub, I is tiddled, but I'm quite sure Ohm's law is relevant here. All the other features of the memory are constant, therefore, if you increase the voltage, current will increase and more (mili) watts will be created.

And that means more heat.

flops = City & Guilds part III Electronic servicing, Colour TV reception and Digital techniques, 1984.

But I've forgotten the lot now, there's more money to be made in other fields, unless you're really clever and get into research.
 
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