Memory Heatsinks for the Sapphire 9800 - U.K

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Could you let me know how your order goes with www.thecoolingshop.co.uk? I'm
looking at ordering some rev. 4 coollers for my Radeon 8500 card but I've
never purchased anything from them before. Any info on their performance /
customer service would be great.

As an aside, does anyone know where I can get some isopropyl alcohol from
for the installation process?
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Hi, yeah sure no problem. My order was processed on the web very quickly,
and I received a prompt order notification email. That was Thursday day.
There was a courier note posted through my door today, sadly I was asleep as
I didn't crash till 5:30am last night. Not sure if it was my cooling shop
order or possibly it could be an RMA'd MAXTOR drive I am waiting on. . .I
will confirm this Monday

Wayne ][

P.S: One thing I like about the cooling shop already is they do *FREE*
delivery
 
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Never really wanted to bother with RAID, before. Maybe, when I
decide to run a fileserver I will :) Is your boot drive one of the
SAT drives? I've toyed with that notion, but I want to wait until
the next revision of the standard emerges...
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Hi Strontium,
hehe we are very off topic here :P

But just to quickly answer your question, yes I am running 2 x 120GB
WD-SE SATA drives in RAID-0 as my main boot/windowsXP drive. The
difference compared to my existing IBM ATA/66 is nothing short of
*phenomenal*. 2 x SATA 150 disks running in RAID-0 is something that
has to be experienced. I am still integrating everything on my new
build so I haven't had time to really test this disk-sub-system
fully, but I notice that software installs are stupidly fast. My
main purpose for having this (lavish) disk set-up was to speed up the
process of .wav .avi .mpg editing as these files are usually 1-3GB
each! and can take up to ten minutes to save!

I am aware that I take twice the risk using RAID-O in a desktop
system but I am placing my faith in the manufacturers. Also I am
considering getting a 250GB (ish) external (firewire/USB) HDD which
features a *one-touch* back-up/restore feature, so if it all goes
pear shaped down the line I have something to fall back on. . .

To be honest all I am doing right now is admiring the graphics put
out by my new 9800, that will keep me busy for a day or two. .

Wayne ][

P.S: Strontium I 100% recommend you check-out RAID-0 SATA, from what
I read in all your posts here I know you are a man who likes
*quality* and *performance*. . . why would you not apply these
ethics to your disk sub-system?
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Hmmmmm... Well, you've got me thinking, that's for sure. Now that my
'silent box' project is complete, and I'm going to be moving in 2 months, I
will investigate this. I think the 21'' monitor is going to come next,
after my move. I've been living with 15'' viewable for 4.5yrs, now! After
that, it will be a toss up on what I upgrade. The 9800pro is a definite,
unless they bring out something better around the holidays. And, I'm fairly
certain I'm gonna drop a 3.0G processor in there, when that price drops as
well. Fortuately, recent raises at work are going to make my xmas a very
nice one, indeed!
 
Could you let me know how your order goes with www.thecoolingshop.co.uk? I'm
looking at ordering some rev. 4 coollers for my Radeon 8500 card but I've
never purchased anything from them before. Any info on their performance /
customer service would be great.
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Hi James,

just to let you know that I have received my good from the *Cooling Shop*.
The Postman actually tried to deliver this Saturday morning but I was asleep
after staying up all night working on my new build. Anyway this was the
first time I ordered from them and I have to say, 1st class service!. I
will be buying more stuff from them. . .no doubt, just love FREE P&P!.

Anyway I have my Tweakmonster BGA Heatsinks now (x8), so I just have to
pluck up courage to attach them with Artic-Silver Thermal epoxy!

Wayne ][
 
Wayne Youngman said:
just to let you know that I have received my good from the *Cooling Shop*.
The Postman actually tried to deliver this Saturday morning but I was asleep
after staying up all night working on my new build. Anyway this was the
first time I ordered from them and I have to say, 1st class service!. I
will be buying more stuff from them. . .no doubt, just love FREE P&P!.

Anyway I have my Tweakmonster BGA Heatsinks now (x8), so I just have to
pluck up courage to attach them with Artic-Silver Thermal epoxy!
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Slightly 'ouch' prices for Eg. Coolermaster Copper Ramsinks CRC-U01 - Misco
have those at £5.88 incl. VAT but if that's P&P paid from 'thecoolingshop'
then it's not so bad I guess - Misco's least expensive delivery charge is
£10..!

Ciao...

[UK]_Nick...
 
Slightly 'ouch' prices for Eg. Coolermaster Copper Ramsinks CRC-U01 - Misco
have those at £5.88 incl. VAT but if that's P&P paid from 'thecoolingshop'
then it's not so bad I guess - Misco's least expensive delivery charge is
£10..!
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Hi Nick,

yeah I know what you mean about *ouch* prices, considering that I already
paid £216.00 for the card itself (now £236.00 inc heat-sinks) but actually I
was gonna have these things shipped from the USA at first, until someone
pointed them out for sale in the U.K :P. You know whets its like when you
gotta have something. Actually these Tweakmonster BGA chips are very well
made (Solid copper I think, with Silver finish?), and they are pretty heavy
for their size. I bought some Artic Thermal Epoxy about 2-3 months ago, but
I didn't use it before so I figure just to be safe I will do a quick dry-run
using some 2pence pieces to see how it's done.

I will post back how I got on, I figure it should be quite straight forward,
and I am 99.9% convinced it's the right thing to do. My 9800's Memory chips
get very damn hot and I am still running at stock, can't be good for the
memory/card in general, not to mention the overclocking I intend to do will
surely raise the temps even more, even though I read one or two reports from
9800 owners who say their mem-chip temps went down after they flashed it to
a 9800Pro BIOS?

Wayne ][
 
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