Corsair Vengeance Tall Heatsink Removed!!!

pc_monkey · 3 Dec 2011 at 21:06

Just removed my Corsair vengeance tall heatsink. It's a lot easier than I thought. I used a plastic spatula to pry the heatsink off:

And my new bling bling !

Plec · 3 Dec 2011 at 21:16

k_poh said:
Just removed my Corsair vengeance tall heatsink. It's a lot easier than I thought. I used a plastic spatula to pry the heatsink off:

They are easy to get off - sometimes too easy.

Nice sharp pics - personally i think your memory looks better with the new lower profile skin even with the bling look

NeoVo · 3 Dec 2011 at 21:18

Very interesting idea

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I was concerned that I was going to encounter heat sink mounting issues with my the 4 sticks of vengeance ram being so high, but fortunately the corsair H50 doesn't require much clearance

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bhavv · 4 Dec 2011 at 16:23

Those tall vengeance heatspreaders are ridiculous considering that the vengeance ram is just bog cheap standard stuff that barely overclocks, yet its marketted as overclocking ram.

No more Corsair for me after these thats for sure. Pay more than other brands, get the same cheap stuff, ewwww!!!! :mad:

setter · 4 Dec 2011 at 16:42

I wonder if you could do this with a set of ocz reapers? An old pic below of them in my previous eclipse 62 with a TRUE.

I was thinking of purchasing a silver arrow cooler, but the reaper's heatpipe would be badly in the way.

Surveyor · 4 Dec 2011 at 17:10

setter said:
I wonder if you could do this with a set of ocz reapers?

It depends how they're stuck on.

The OP's were stuck on with what looks like thermal tape so were easy to remove.

Some are stuck to the chips with thermal adhesive and you can risk pulling the RAM chips off the PCB trying to remove the heat spreaders.

setter · 4 Dec 2011 at 18:23

Iirc, there are some reaper kits where theyre stuck on with pads, (several different designs of reaper). I remember a few users on here reporting that the heatspreaders fell off them.

abarth_1200 · 17 Jan 2012 at 23:36

I have a set of Reapers from April 2009 I tried taking the heatsink off, unscrewed the 2 black screws and started to pry open with a think piece of plastic, heard a crack noise then decided to abandon the idea, tested them with memtest86+ just incase I did pull a chip off the pcb, they are OK but if they are hard to remove do not continue

setter · 17 Jan 2012 at 23:40

Ive switched them out now for 12gb of low profile kingston hyper x in a 3x4gb configuration. Might use the reapers in my other machine along with 6gb of corsair xms 3.

Plec · 19 Jan 2012 at 16:50

setter said:
Ive switched them out now for 12gb of low profile kingston hyper x in a 3x4gb configuration. Might use the reapers in my other machine along with 6gb of corsair xms 3.

I figured you would scratch that itch sooner or later

Have you noticed any benefits jumping from 6gb to 12gb setter - BF3 in particular?

setter · 19 Jan 2012 at 17:36

Not much difference in bf3, as my ram use was around 2gb for the game. Windows feels a lot snappier though. Made the upgrade as the kingston was pretty cheap, and i see it has risen quite steeply in the last few weeks. The reapers were an excellent high end cas7 set, but due to their size they were a hindrance to the cpu cooler.

littlepuppy · 20 Jan 2012 at 13:47

what chips were on the vengeance out of interest, also is that a 260 or 280 above? loved those fuly encased cards, looked awesome.

Rroff · 20 Jan 2012 at 13:51

setter said:
I was thinking of purchasing a silver arrow cooler, but the reaper's heatpipe would be badly in the way.

As mentioned above OCZ Reaper kits are a bit hit and miss when it comes to removing the heatpipes - I tried to take one of my kits apart after heating stories of the heatspreader coming loose in the case and they were v. secure :S

goodl · 20 Jan 2012 at 14:09

nice photos

PapaLazaru · 20 Jan 2012 at 15:49

goodl said:
nice photos

Indeed. What camera?

panyan · 20 Jan 2012 at 18:09

was it only asthetics and clearance that you changed or was there another reason? overclocking perhaps?

personally, i think paying more for heatspreaders is a waste as ram only gets hot if your overclocking it a lot

pc_monkey · 20 Jan 2012 at 18:21

PapaLazaru said:
Indeed. What camera?

goodl said:
nice photos

Don't know if you're asking me or the other chaps' pics, anyway thanks, and I used a Canon 7D.

panyan said:
was it only asthetics and clearance that you changed or was there another reason? overclocking perhaps?

personally, i think paying more for heatspreaders is a waste as ram only gets hot if your overclocking it a lot

It was just for clearance, because my Silver Arrow is such a monster.

panyan · 20 Jan 2012 at 18:24

pc_monkey said:
It was just for clearance, because my Silver Arrow is such a monster.

yeah, thats the same issue with the d-14 - the price of awesome performance

setter · 21 Jan 2012 at 01:19

Or go water cooled.

Love to do it myself, but the cost is very prohibitive.