Why cool VRAM with main heatsink?

[orangecat]

I was just thinking about my GPU's cooler and I thought to myself, why cool the VRAM with the same heatsink that cools the GPU? My GPU is running at 77c right now with a pretty good OC while I fold and to my knowledge memory chips don't get hot and if they do heat up they would get warm if that. Since the VRAM touches the already hot heatsink isn't that just going to heat it up more than if it didn't have one? my GTX 460 didn't have VRAM heatsink and it was just fine without it.

[Aniallation]

Cause it's better then nothing

[Fictionvl]

Cause why not? I mean the whole PCB is covered by the massive heatsink anyways, so might as well cover the VRAM too

[incarnate]

It helps with memory overclocking and high clocked ram. While ram doesn't get that hot unless overclocked like mad, it's still better to cool it. The vrm is more important to cool however

[orangecat]

Cause why not? I mean the whole PCB is covered by the massive heatsink anyways, so might as well cover the VRAM too

but the heatsink gets hot. I don't think the memory would get hot without a heatsink. i feel like the heat from the GPU/heatsink would just transfer to the memory.

[Aphala]

Heatspreders

[ansauri]

Heat doesn't transfer to memory, it goes to the coolest parts. Since the heatsink is always being cooled, the heat from the chip will transfer first to the heatsink than the memory.

Memory touched by the heatsink is an improvement. Cooler memories can be overclocked higher.