VRAM heatsink importance?

[Octavialicious]

Hey all, my thermal pads made my VRAM super slimey and I didn't realize until I applied all of my VRAM heatsinks. A bunch of them are falling off now, and I need to wait a few days for new heatsinks to arrive. Will the card be fine until then, especially because I won't be doing any OCing? 

 

Oh and also, if I put thermal paste would it hold or is it a waste of time?

 

 

Thanks

[Najuno]

Hey all, my thermal pads made my VRAM super slimey and I didn't realize until I applied all of my VRAM heatsinks. A bunch of them are falling off now, and I need to wait a few days for new heatsinks to arrive. Will the card be fine until then, especially because I won't be doing any OCing? 

 

Oh and also, if I put thermal paste would it hold or is it a waste of time?

 

 

Thanks

Well, OCed or not the VRAM need to be cooled. From what you write I assume you are running an aftermarket AIO on your card right? If you have put your original cooler back on this card please. IMHO those AIOs on GPUs are a waste because they are coming with this sort of issues. I prefer custom water cooling anytime and anywhere over such a crap.

Don´t bother about thermal paste. This will become even more ghetto. As stated before go back to your card´s original heatsink.

[Octavialicious]

Well, OCed or not the VRAM need to be cooled. From what you write I assume you are running an aftermarket AIO on your card right? If you have put your original cooler back on this card please. IMHO those AIOs on GPUs are a waste because they are coming with this sort of issues. I prefer custom water cooling anytime and anywhere over such a crap.

Don´t bother about thermal paste. This will become even more ghetto. As stated before go back to your card´s original heatsink.

They have two fans right above them, I'm running an MK-26

 

two 120mm fans right above them should be ok for three days right? Installation on this thing was a biatch

[Najuno]

They have two fans right above them, I'm running an MK-26

 

two 120mm fans right above them should be ok for three days right? Installation on this thing was a biatch

 

Well not an AIO as I expected but another aftermarket, with all due respect, crap. Those little VRAM cooling units are known to fall off after a while. Unless you can run the card properly I wouldn´t try to improvise with just fans or thermal paste. I mean please don´t get me wrong, who am I to tell you what to do, but for me personally it wouldn´t be worth the risk. There´s a chance you make it with the fans and very mild VRAM setting (I´d even underclock a bit) and there´s one you fry it.

[DXMember]

just to make sure - are you talking about VRAM memory or VRM voltage regulators?

either way they will get pretty toasty and you'll notice artifacting shortly before the cards burns out and dies

especially if there is no built in heat protection for those components - I know of GPU sensors and VRM sensors that prevent heat damage to the card, never heard of VRAM heat sensors though