A discussion have been ongoing in our forum regarding the effect of cooling the memorymodules on videocards.

We did not think we would gain anything by cooling the memory - but we decided to give it a try anyway.

We used our Elsa Erazor X² 32 MB DDR. We   made 8 small heatsinks  - the surface were sandblasted and we polished the surface against the memory modules. The heatsinks were then glued on to the memory modules with Loctite 326 which transfers heat very well.  A 120mm Papst fan was installed to blow air over the coolers.

We tried to overclock the memory clock frequency above 370MHz which we managed without the heatsinks - but no way we could run it higher than we did without them !

Our conclusion is that cooling down the memory didn't help at all.

We have also recieved mails regarding the Q3 timedemo with Elsa Erazor X² 32 MB DDR. Here you can see which settings we used when we did run the timedemo. The command to run the timedemo is : "timedemo 1" (press enter) then- "demo demo001" - press enter again and the timedemo starts. After the timedemo are finished bring down the console again to see your result. You might have to write timedemo 1 two times in the console !

With a Athlon550 and Elsa Erazor X² 32 MB DDR we did get 121.3 fps.See the settings we used underneath.

This test was done with a Athlon550 at default speed.

Here is our original Elsa Erazor X² 32 MB DDR overclocking article