Lost ocean Copper VGA RAM Cooling Heatsinks cooler and Cable Tie(8 PCS )

Gaming on a GTX 980 with a stock cooler results in up to 80C avg temps. Long story short - I have installed an aftermarket CPU cooler and these RAM heatsinks. Though the aftermarket cooler indicates It wasn't necessary to install any chips on the RAM I decided to do so anyway. As a result, both the GPU AND it's RAM top off at 32-38 C while gaming at max settings on either of the games mentioned below. I've paired this product up with the Arctic Accelero 140 on my Reference NVIDIA GTX980 and it's done marvelously for the past two months. I run my machine on a 2K monitor @ 144hz (ASUS PQ27) and in the past when two games I've played recently, Rise of the Tomb Raider and Overwatch, would cause my frame rates to top out due to 'thermal limits' per a program called GPUZ @80 C, I decided to ditch the stock cooler. I also have an HTC Vive and while playing games like The Solus Project, Out of Ammo, and Job Simulator, I've noticed a decrease if not a complete lack of stuttering, indicating frame rates are staying above 90fps at all times. Needless to say, a gaming machine's performance is dependant on the sun of its components and these RAM chips have been a reliable if not small part of my positive overall experience. After two months I have not had any of the chips fall off, which was an initial concern since the RAM chips are hanging off of the video card as opposed to sitting on top of it as a result of the way the card is traditionally mounted within my PC.

Great, pure copper, heatsinks! While the days of using them on VGA RAM are likely over, they still allow one to place these on small IC's on a variety of devices. Personally I have them on my Raspberry Pi's and other SBC (Single Board Computers) to help them dissapate as much heat as they can. While I don't overclock too much I primarily picked these up for the then, unreleased, Raspberry Pi 3 which had rumored early on (read: Reddit and other hobby/maker forums) to really put out some heat while over-utilized. While I've never had an issue with mine overheating, I cannot say it wasn't because of these heatsinks; since they have been on all 3 of my devices before they ever saw power. They stick well although some care MUST be taken to get the paper backing off the stick-pad as delicately as possible. I can imagine someone new or looking for something like this might heavy-hand it and get the sticky-pad dirty or fingerprinted. This will result in loss of sticking power and I can believe that possibly some lower than normal reviews were due to improper handling and use. Who knows exactly but the batch I've received have worked well and I'm storing them in a cool, dry place for future use. I expect no problems.

A total of 8 of these (which is what you get in the package) may have helped lower my CPU temp under idle about 3C. I had room in my laptop so i was able to put it in there. (Sager 8130). I will probably purchase a few more packs of these as i don't mind spending 20-30 more bucks on them to cover my CPU/GPU. It won't hurt, although it may not give you some crazy drop in heat. I would say 1 pack = 2-4C. The heatsinks themselves are surprisingly heavy, which is a good thing. It's an expensive way to cool your system, as if you can upgrade your heatsink/fan for your CPU/GPU money will be better spent, but these are also quick and SIMPLE install as well. So you don't need to take anything out, you don't need any glue as the back of these have adhesive, they will stick right on whatever you put them on. I don't know why they include the cosmos cable tie, no point unless i guess you need one?

I have purchased these heatsinks a few times now. They are great heat sinks made out of solid copper and have helped lower the temp of whatever I've but them on by at least a couple of degrees. The first pack I bought a few years back when I was building my gaming computer which was liquid cooled. I used these to cool the ram on my video card after removing the stock heatsink (which didn't cool the ram at all). They dropped the ram temp by a few degrees. When I replaced my video card a while later I bought another pack for the new video card as well. I then bought another pack when I wanted a heatsink for my Raspberry Pi. I was using XBMC at the time on a pi as a media player, and it was stressing the pi fairly good so I decided to put a cooler on it. It helped there as well. I had a few left over and so I ended up putting one on the 2 hottest chips in my wireless router which was known for having over heating issues and needing to be rebooted every few weeks. This seemed to help with that as well.