Boinker Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 (edited) The Makeshift memory Crisis. The other day I was discussing the ram issue on my rig with corsair and afterfiguring out the issue Corsair said they want to RMA my ram. That is a good thing but here is the issue. What am I going to do about the missing ram in my system while I wait. I most certainly do not want to go without my machine operational for 5-10 days while I wait on Corsair to give me a new set. So here is what I did. I went down to the local computer shop in OKC and bought me a pair of EL cheapo DDR3 1333 (2x2 gig timings 9-9-9-24 1N @ 1.50v). After some time passed by I got bord. all of the sudden I want to overclock them. After getting the overclock on them to 1866mhz @ 10-10-10-30 3N @1.65v. Thats pretty impressive for a pair of 30 dollar a piece sticks. After running Memtest86 through several segments and OCCT linpak I was satisfied that they were perfectly stabled out. After that I thought to check there temperature. YIKES. 124F and rising under occt. That's enough of that noise. I then though whats a home made solution to this issue. Here is the solution. Go find you some copper, aluminum, bronze or just about any kind of metal. Here is what I used, they are copper shims that Bishop245 had laying around at the shop he works at. Next was figuring out How to make them into a cooler for the ram. Well quite frankly it would have been easier if they had chips on both sides And i could use an aftermarket stick on cooler but just my luck they are one sided. So I went ahead and made a more permanent solution. I rolled one stick of the copper into a steel roll and AS5 epoxied another piece to make a contact plate for the ram. In the end it ends up looking like a "heat pipe". Pretty neat IMHO. This is what they end up looking like Before I decided to cut some notches into the copper to aid cooling. Just a minor note. Do those sticks not look pathetic next to that massive water block and array of extremely expensive components. And now I glue them together. After I let them sit for about an hour they were good and stuck to the ram. For grins I went ahead I went ahead and tested them in the system. And the end result And here they are in the case. Don't they look so ghetto. Ghetto, yes they are a described. If I was to try and place them in real life these things in my case would be like a Worn out 5 tones Cutlass sitting in the valet lane at the Rits Carlton Hotel.. But they operate as a heatsink well and serve as a good heat sink. Here are my results taken with my Exergen DX5014 temperature gauge. Note: All temperatures were done with passive cooling. I brought my system down to a very minimal overclock so I could run the radiator run the radiator fans at the lowest speed possible without them stopping... That is just under 900 rpm Temperatures without coolers. Under occt linpak stock: 99f idle 111f load Under occt linpak Overclocked: 110f idle, 128f load Temperatures with coolers. Under occt linpak stock with coolers: 85f idle, 95f load Under occt linpak with coolers Overclocked: 94f Idle, 104.5f Load Well as ugly as they look they work sufficiently. Over a 20f difference in temperature is nothing to be ashamed of... except maybe the way they look. Hope everyone enjoys this. It was just a couple hours out of a day where I modded, Overclocked, and made every attempt to burn up a set of ram. Now they shall stay good and cool. Edited January 11, 2011 by boinker Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandoPatriot Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 You are brave using pliers to squeeze that metal onto the RAM.... Totally ghetto. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Munkypoo7 Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Voted "other" What you have done is what I call "Win" sir. Excellent work 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth_Tom Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Definitely other. If it was redneck it'd be made out of aluminum beer cans, and it just seems to polished to be ghetto to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MandoPatriot Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Definitely other. If it was redneck it'd be made out of aluminum beer cans, and it just seems to polished to be ghetto to me. Polished isn't ghetto? Isn't chrome something every ghetto person has to have? Lol Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dr_bowtie Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 that ghetto mod totally rocks....so that means you rock Carry on, nice work man, nice work indeed Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectrascope Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Very nice indeed not ghetto, perhaps prototype. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrewr05 Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Awesome, I love ghetto engineering. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mgsmid Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Asus P6T7 WS supercomputer X58 Chipset $ 399 Intel I7 920 do stepping $ 279 Nvidia GTX 480 $ 449 advanced Water cooling system $ 300 fancy hard drives psu case and drives $ 250 gluing bits of copper to a $20 stick of ddr3 and letting it adorn your 2000 dollar rig, priceless Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest_Jim_* Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 I'm with Munkypoo7. The fact that you just took what you had around and made functional heatsinks without breaking the RAM, yeah, win. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
IVIYTH0S Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Dude you should start selling them, if you can keep getting these cheap but golden clockers, my next machine will have boinkfactor sticks in them! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bishop245 Posted January 11, 2011 Posted January 11, 2011 Those are copper shims made by erico a division of the caddy corp part number B140A specs: .013" x 3" x 1.5" if you have access to an electrical supply they can order these easily if they dont have them in stock. I voted redneck since thats what i was calling it as we went through things here at the office to find something that may work then i remembered those wonderful lil shims but well after tellin him to do psywars penny ram sink mod from WAY back in the day Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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