after market coolers

sylvester243 · 04-17-2009, 08:15 AM

hi, I have a ASUS 4870 currently with glacier stock heatsink and fan,, the fan now makes a horrid vibrating when spinning and you can feel the vibrations though the desk, i am looking at changing the stock cooler with Accelero twin turbo, i can understand why you apply heatsink onto the vrm chips but why are needed on the ram chips with an after market cooler when with a stock cooler there are no heatsinks on ram....only fan and heatsink on gpu and only heatsink on vrm chip

thanks

**emosun** · 04-17-2009, 09:50 AM

Because the memory also gets warm and this would be an UPGRADE from the stock cooler which does not have memory heat sinks. If there's memory chips on the opposite side of the card as well you can also consider small heat sinks for those too.

04-17-2009, 08:15 AM	#1 (permalink)
sylvester243 Registered User Join Date: Feb 2008 Posts: 34 OS: xp	after market coolers hi, I have a ASUS 4870 currently with glacier stock heatsink and fan,, the fan now makes a horrid vibrating when spinning and you can feel the vibrations though the desk, i am looking at changing the stock cooler with Accelero twin turbo, i can understand why you apply heatsink onto the vrm chips but why are needed on the ram chips with an after market cooler when with a stock cooler there are no heatsinks on ram....only fan and heatsink on gpu and only heatsink on vrm chip thanks

04-17-2009, 09:50 AM	#2 (permalink)
emosun Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: usa Posts: 7,034 OS: xp pro sp2 My System	Re: after market coolers Because the memory also gets warm and this would be an UPGRADE from the stock cooler which does not have memory heat sinks. If there's memory chips on the opposite side of the card as well you can also consider small heat sinks for those too. __________________ Gpu Benchmarks Cpu-Z Power supply information and selection Gpu-Z Video card quick list