Best VRM Cooling (30c Temperature drop)

30°C+ VRM temperature drop for 50 cents
for MSI Motherboard
#VRMTempretureDrop

In This video i have shown how you can install heatsink to your motherboard VRM for better cooling if you have basic motherboard.

Music -
Song: "Sappheiros - Falling (Ft. eSoreni) [Chill]" is under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY)

[matejsopor]

This method have definitelly helped me with old i7 thermal throttling while overclocking. It works perfectly now thanks mate !

[InvertLogic]

Do you have motherboard without heat sink on VRM's? then this video is for you!

[everope]

For a better comparison measure the back of the motherboard where the VRMs are, before and after

[giralds]

Do NOT paint your heatsink... that only insulates heat and reduces the effectiveness of the aluminum or copper. If you desire a black heatsink, buy a black anodized product. If you are using liquid cooled cpu cooler, be sure to add a fan to the VRM heatsinks to ensure proper heat dissipation

[lukafireman]

Mate. U cannot measure the VRM Temp underneath as there's a heatsink dissipating that 90degrees and ur measuring the heatsink, which is incorrect. Flawed test

[jaystol]

never paint a heatsink! black heatsinks that you see that come that way are anodized! painting a heatsink will trap or insulate and the material (copper or alu) will hamper it's job by like alot. this video is wrong on so many levels.

[arthurgiannakis]

Need to be very careful with this kind of solution. You measured 30 degree drop in temp but you don't know if that is because the heat transfer from the VRM to the heatsink is now poor. As in, more heat is now contained in the component and less heat is getting through to the heatsink compared to when the VRMs were in open air. The heatsink is painted and there may be the tiniest gaps between the components and the heatsink itself, even with the plaster. So the heatsink measures a lot cooler than the body temps of the VRMs

Remember its not the temperature of the heatsink that matters, it is the temperature of the VRM component that matters. You need to somehow measure the temp of the actual components otherwise you may experience early failure and not understand why.

[Sokol]

4:56 - Putting oil from your fingers on the underside of the heatsink is essential for proper operation. 😁

[Angelo-bjvq]

Won't the paint act as an insulator to the heat sink surface area? Or is that some kind of thermally conductive spray paint?

[stevendelange]

Nice idea, good work... but, your paint job is cringe worthy... far too much thermal glue was used, like a drop per vrm would work and, but thermal tape would be better, and the heatsink is touching the caps, thats a no go. but other than that, good job.

[bmddoesntmatter]

Dont paint or cut your heat sink just buy the right ones and dont use paste use thermal tape from 3m. Other then that this is a good idea to lower temps for 10 dollars. Dont look for gains tho this will help with throttle durring the summer and still you wont notice any gains.

[duckly-official]

I did this to my OMEN stock mobo (OMEN Oasis Z590H 65w) and now I have no problems with running the 11900K at 4.7-4.8 GHz on all cores :)

[RAMMSTElN]

3:04 you should make as many radiators as elements you should chill . For each element 1 radiator because total surface of all elements isn't completely same, some higher some lower that's why they use thermal pads .

[Lemmiwinks_The_Gerbil_King]

i have never seen a half way decent mainboard that doesnt have pretty bulky VRM cooling :0

my MSI and ASrock boards always had thick aluminium heatsinks.

and i know older boards which even had full copper heatsinks.

edit: i checked a super cheap AMD APU mainboard (no name) which is from 2011. I got it gifted and never tested it yet.

and indeed it has no vram cooling. I will defenitely fix that. Luckely i have tons of heatsinks here.


i will glue them on with thermal double sided glue tape

[matiaspedelhez]

entry-level 11th motherboards buyers be like...

[BrainHurricanes]

Can you get the actual temps from the motherboard ? Because now your reading the heatsink temp. It would be nice to know the actual VRM temp. I think MSI got some software for it, but i'm not sure, mine is gigabyte. Thanks for sharing.

[qT_p]

i get the idea but you could use a lot less paste, and maybe shave/sand down the edges of the heatsink a bit so they dont touch the capacitors at least... why did you paste the capacitors? Good idea, but the execution could be much better. Thanks all the same i do appreciate it.

[Дмитрий-спы]

I give you like after 52 sec of vid, coz of straight to the point and music is awesome! God job!

[random]

how to remove this ..thing please reply..
rubbing alcohol ??
😢

[zetu]

Can you put thermal paste instead of heatsink plaster?