Quote Originally Posted by cegras View Post
Not really. You see even on the new heatsinks for AMD / nvidia the only contact the mosfets make with the heatsinks is by touching the same metal parts as the memory - in fact, they're the farthest from the fin dissipation area.
I'm so sick of guys with theories based on the color of the sky,when I talk out of experience. I already have a HD 4850 which is properly cooled. Well the GPU is properly cooled, cause the VRM can't take an OC with those RAM Sinks.

Even guys with Watercooling have similar problems, cause that WC doesn't apply on VRM area, only the GPU gets cooled. Here's others with similar problems:

http://forums.amd.com/game/messagevi...threadid=98153

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=66763

http://www.rage3d.com/BOARD/showthread.php?t=33928000

http://www.rage3d.net/board/showthread.php?t=33928548

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Oh, yeah I see you own a BFG 9600GT OC, yet you contradict with my opinions as a HD 4850 user. .