tot of buying the cooler master coolviva tht is only rm36 new for heatpipe technologies to cool down my x800xl with r480 core, then i decided to go tro my heatsink collection and i found some decend ramsink and a cpu heatsik from my socket A cpu i think

this is how it looks like






adn this is how i stick the ramsink on, some super glue at each corner



yep its my network card alright...

end result
from this 400core 500mem


bcome this, clock at 550core and 600mem


with the stock cooler i can barely maintain it at 80 under load, idle around 53, thts without oc, cant oc cos it will hang. with this mod and the oc speed im doing a stable 60 at full load, and thts with the fan set at medium speed, idle drop to 41!!

seem like im using all the junk in my pc...hahaha

i got a copper base server cpu heatsink, its a little heavy so i cut the idea of using it, bought it at rm5 around 8 years back at a factory where they collect and recycle pc

wow u have a nice rig

as5 is way better then thermal pads, just made sure the heatsinks seat properly on the mem.