Thermal Mod Advice

I'm looking to do some thermal modifications to my CPU/GPU heatsinks to get that little extra edge on temperatures. I've heard of some taking mini-heat sinks and attaching them with thermal tape to the thermal block to dissipate the heat a little better. The two fans already provide a little bit of active cooling for the mobo and other components, so I think it would be a good idea.

Where would I find mini-heatsinks like this?

Any other ideas out there on pulling that heat down?

 

Vga memory coolers like these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887017

 

Ooh ya thats exactly what I need. They look to be low profile enough.

 

Something more like this is probably more what you are looking for. Not sure where you can by these outside of a full vga cooler kit.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI...=1&Description=VANTEC CCB-A6C Ball VGA Cooler

 

Hi emike09. You might want to give Mark a call to see what he used. I believe in his older designs he used generic heatsinks, some from Thermaltake, before CNC'ing his own custom heatsinks out of blocks of aluminium and copper. It's quite impressive.

http://www.guruofgaming.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=165&highlight=heatsink

 

wanna know a funny story...in that forum discussion I am "mylapburns" talking about my modded E1705 with a 7950gtx lol...and little did i know that was the ever-famous gophn there too lol

 

oh by the way, let me know what kind of success you get with any heatsink mods, i'd love some ideas for some mods to keep the 9800 gt in my 8660 running cool. i wonder if you could stick something like this in the case http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835110103