Staples as a reasonable memory sink?

[Starion15]

Hello,

I looked at the ATI overclocker list, I saw someone post it somewhere, but I dont feel like finding it again. Anyway. . .someone cooled their memory with staples. I thought this was quite ingenious, but I was wondering how affective one would expect his to be? Are staples really that heat conducive? I'm planning on buying a Radeon 8500le, and right now I'm planning on adding on the ThermalTake Ramsinks ($12). But, I dont plan on changing the voltage, or flashing the bios, so my only overclocking would be with Rage3d. Do you think that staples would suffice for such a task? Just wondering, seemed like a very creative idea. Thanks for the feedback. 😀

 

[error_911]

weeeeeellllllllll, staples would cool down the RAM better than nothing, thats for sure - though staples are usually made out of aluminum and they're tiny, you'd need a massive amount of thermal adhessive and staples... well, if you wanna go for it, but i think gettin some cheap-o heatsinks or anythin else will be better, heh.

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[jihiggs]

maybe office type staples are alluminum, but heavyer grade is hardend steel. thats about 10 times less effective than alluminum.

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[4Ryan6]

If I were you I'd use the right thing they don't cost that much<A HREF="http://www.crazypc.com/products/cooling/cooling.htm#chipcoolers" target="_new">http://www.crazypc.com/products/cooling/cooling.htm#chipcoolers</A>

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[knowan]

I remember that thread. He was planning on using large copper staples of the type used to close up shipping boxes. As I recall he didn't actually go through with it and wound up purchasing commercial RAM heatsinks instead.

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[Teq]

Simple question to ask yourself... what happens if one of them gets loose?



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[jodel]

-Simple question to ask yourself... what happens if one of them gets loose?-

errr...

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZIP! SHHHHHHHHHHHHH...... *@*&%$#*!!!

But the idea looked nice to me... it would sure cool them down...

Jodel

 

[error_911]

just like any random, large piece of copper epoxied to the RAM, heh

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taking
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[jodel]

hmm... indeed... Let's see... ah my mom's 112 year old frieing pan... Yeah... That "ll do... 😉

Is it just me or are the Dutch slowly taking over THGC??? 😉