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First post, by Smack2k

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Picked up an ELSA Gladiac Ultra (GeForce2 Ultra) but the heatsink that attached to the top 4 memory chips was missing.

Is there anything I can use to attach to these for cooling outside buying new heatsink chips like these - https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?I … N82E16835708009

I have a bunch of thermal pads left over as well as some copper shims from a PS3 fix, are those viable to use?

I guess I could also remove a heatsink from an unused card and apply it to the Ultra as well.

Looking for any other options

Reply 1 of 6, by deleted_Rc

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the shims do not offer the cooling ability a heatsink does, the surface of a heatsink is just alot bigger then a shim.

Reply 2 of 6, by Smack2k

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What about thermal pads I can cut to size?

Reply 3 of 6, by tgod

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The ultra's memory has been speed bumped a whole 60mhz compared to the pro/ti models which don't have heatsinks on the memory. Couldn't you just underclock the card?

Reply 4 of 6, by nforce4max

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I guess that card means nothing if you are unwilling to put some proper cooling to make up for the missing vram cooler. Nice card...

On a far away planet reading your posts in the year 10,191.

Reply 5 of 6, by Smack2k

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Right, so I wanna get cooling on the memory chips......thermal pads no good then?

Reply 6 of 6, by deleted_Rc

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Smack2k wrote:

Right, so I wanna get cooling on the memory chips......thermal pads no good then?

Thermal pads are fine with proper heatsinks.

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