1keith1

Okay well i dont want to spend money on 5000series, and by the time i am willing to, the 6000series might be out. So my plan is to hopefully hold out until the 6000series.

i saw this on newegg http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814131162
it looks pretty good for the price, but i dislike how there are no heatsinks on the ram. Do you think this will matter? maybe i will use my extra 8 vram heatsinks on them that i got with my zalman gpu cooler.

killa_concept

RAM does not produce enough heat to disrupt the GPU's functionality. Unless you plan to overvolt them, there's really no need for direct cooling of them - case airflow should be enough. If you have them available though, ram sinks might earn you 10 or 20 extra MHz on your memory.

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ZealotKi11er

Well my 4850 died because i did not have cooling for Ram once i overclocked them.

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uNeec

http://www.overclock.net/video/60123...50-512mbs.html
Buy both of them and Tri-Fire it.

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1keith1

alright, now how about choosing 1GB of memory to crossfire with my 512mb? Will there be any benefit?

Also will putting them in crossfire affect my current GPU's overclock?

@ uNeec, that second one with the one slot radeon cooler that is red, sucks i have that card and temps were soaring well into 80C. although only way i could try fire is for 1 of the cards to be a single slot, or else my 3rd pcie x16 gets blocked.

ZealotKi11er

It will use only 512MB. I personally like to go with similar card once i go CF.

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killa_concept

It shouldn't have done permanent damage... was the mosfet lacking in cooling as well?

Nope - the 512MB will hold back the 1GB. Also, the CF overclock will only be less than what you're currently at if your second card doesn't clock as high as your current one.

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1keith1

are you saying that about using the same brand, as in i should go diamond for the second card because i already have a diamond 4850?

killa_concept

Brand doesn't matter - I think his choice was more based on wanting symmetry. I actually traded off a higher clocking 4870 for a lower one because I wanted matching heatsinks (then again, I'm sort of OCD).

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ZealotKi11er

Yeah whats what i am talking about to look uniform.

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