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I would try to avoid using thermal pads between the ram and the heatsinks. The SPD chip doesn't need to be cooled so I would drill a hole in the ram heatsinks where the SPD chip would collide so you can fully seat them using the stock thermal tape. That would transfer heat much better than any thermal pad.I have no idea if rotating the CPU heatsink by 90° would improve cooling performance, it is one of those things that you only know when you try, but the mounting mechanism is very important. You would need to make it exactly right, this is, perfectly leveled while applying the right amount of mounting pressure otherwise you can easily loose cooling performance.To me there is nothing better than open case cooling, but I love any type of mods.One more thing: before overclocking the memory, remove any type of overclock from all components (curve optimizer, etc), once you get a stable memory overclock start overclocking the rest of the system (GPU and CPU).
I would try to avoid using thermal pads between the ram and the heatsinks. The SPD chip doesn't need to be cooled so I would drill a hole in the ram heatsinks where the SPD chip would collide so you can fully seat them using the stock thermal tape. That would transfer heat much better than any thermal pad.
I have no idea if rotating the CPU heatsink by 90° would improve cooling performance, it is one of those things that you only know when you try, but the mounting mechanism is very important. You would need to make it exactly right, this is, perfectly leveled while applying the right amount of mounting pressure otherwise you can easily loose cooling performance.
To me there is nothing better than open case cooling, but I love any type of mods.
One more thing: before overclocking the memory, remove any type of overclock from all components (curve optimizer, etc), once you get a stable memory overclock start overclocking the rest of the system (GPU and CPU).
