Next up, I whipped out the Artic Silver Thermal Adhesive. I have heard stories about people putting too much on the RAM chips and then it "oozing" onto the video card etc.. You can avoid all this by simply being careful and following the method I used. I like to apply the Artic Silver Thermal Paste  to the RAM sinks ( or whatever I am using it on ) first, allow it to start to "set up" and THEN apply it to the RAM. Like this:

it sure takes the worries out of "oozing" or "dripping". 

I decided that I may want to use a Peltier unit on this set-up and some point and time, not necessarily right now, but I wanted to leave my options open. I used the copper plate that was supplied with my Video card Water block kit. There are two ways of attaching the waterblock to the GPU, thermal epoxy or the hold down plates that come with the kit. I chose both...

I figured that this was as good a time as any to try out the new "Copper Paste" thermal compound I have. This stuff works really damn good. . . even if it smells like moss. 

I have a small jar of this stuff, it works phenomenally on the overclocked 1.3GHz CPU, it ought to work great here. . . 

What I ended up with was the copper "cold plate" being attached with epoxy, and the waterblock being sandwiched between two hold down plates. I have plenty of copper paste between the waterblock and the plates too. That way, at a later date, I can simply unbolt the hold down plates, add a 53watt Peltier and bolt the set-up back together.  

The next piece of "hardware" I needed was tubing that would fit snugly into the holes on the RAM sinks. I found some tubing used in fish tanks laying around. I cut a small point or slant in to tubing to make it easier to thread through the new sinks.

The hardest part about threading the tubing through the RAM sinks was trying not to let the tubing "bind"... the best way to thread this stuff is to spray a small amount of WD40 into a rag, and then wipe it onto to tubing before you start threading, works like a charm.

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