Look......When I took them and put them on my mobo, one of them could do 420MHz error-free in memtest.....Though it was ONLY for one loop MAX cuz it was getting hot from the Voltage.....After the Mods I could do as you read on the photo on each of them for much time.....Originally Posted by afireinside
The cheap stock TIM under the spreaders as you said does nothing at all.....It's a joke.....A BIG joke......It just CAN'T absorbe the heating from the chip and spread it to the heatspreader.....
You touch the default heatspreaders and they barely warm....AFTER the mods, go and touch the new copper heatspreaders to see if they're hot or not....You'll be surprised.....
ON the cooper heatspreaders now, we apply a lot of sillicone paste too and around it we apply fast glue...We place the Aluminum heatsinks on the copper heatspreaders and we press much until they are glued on the heatspreaders.....
Doing so we gain TWO things:
a. With the cooper heastspreaders, we absorve the maximum heat from the chips and
b. with the aluminum heatsinks this heat goes away fast PLUS we can keep our rams in a LOW temp for ever, by adding a fan over them.....
So from 420MHz and one loop error-free we go to 435MHz for much time error-free.....
No the "wires" actually are thick and their puprose is to SEAL the chips from RF by grounding the heatspreaders.....They are soldered on the heatspreaders and afterwards, on the Ram's PCB as well (it's ground).
Now the chips are "alone" and they don't archive radiation from any other components near them so as to be "confused" somehow.....
Q: "Why not spread the TIM before applying the spreader?"
A: Because it's not only TIM that is applied on the chips....After we have applied the TIM (I call it sillicone paste), we apply fast glue around the TIM (upper corner and down corner)......After we have applied the TIM and the fast glue we HAVE to PRESS the heatspreader on the module so as to be glued.....By doing this, the TIM also spreads around the chips and the heatspreader.....
We must be carefull though when we press it so as to be "straight" with the PCB cuz if it glues, it's difficult to remove it afterwards (it needs heat around 80 - 100*C )
Ha, ha, ha......we made the topic for moding the ram modules....
EDIT
BEWARE to apply a lot of sillicone paste ON the SPD chip too, cuz when we play with high voltages, THIS is the one that can't handle them firstly and then the ram chips......So we HAVE to cool it too.....
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