Skinnee Labs - GTX480 Block Round-Up (working thread)

[skinnee]

interesting.. wonder why dd is the only company that insists on TIM instead of thermal pads for the memory chips, guess all will be revealed at the end!

Aqua-Computers also use TIM for memory.

Correct, Danger Den and Aqua Computer both specify TIM on the memory. Not sure why some chose TIM vs. Thermal Pads

well shave my balls and call me susie, that's a melon scratcher. surely thermal pads makes up any micro millimetre difference in machining of the block? whereas TIM i'd imagine you'd have to screw excessively tight to make proper contact, possibly causing pcb bending? then again, i've only ever used EK

No, if they're specifying TIM they've already accounted for the variance. And thermal pads compress quite well to... so there really isn't much difference, 1/10's of millimeters or less I would presume.

also skinnee are you weighing each block as you go along? the weight of the blocks are quite important to me. each video is getting better and better btw

I have not been, but thats not a bad idea... I'll have to haul these into work and use the scales we have there, scales I have at home do not go down to grams.

Nice ninja swap with the MX-2 tubes

Started with a black near-empty tube and ended with a fresh white tube

Near-empty, ha! I got 3 mem chips and that was all... I didn't think anyone was going to catch that either, good eye.


EK block installed, video captured and things progressing!