{"id":635329,"date":"2026-07-27T05:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=834202"},"modified":"2026-07-27T05:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T05:30:00","slug":"a-gamer-boosted-his-ram-with-diy-copper-pipe-heatsinks-in-45-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/a-gamer-boosted-his-ram-with-diy-copper-pipe-heatsinks-in-45-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gamer Boosted His RAM With DIY Copper Pipe Heatsinks in 45 Minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/a-gamer-boosted-his-ram-with-diy-copper-pipe-heatsinks-in-45-minutes-768x432.png\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Hardware and $100 bills\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>A PC modder known as sunrise2209 shared a DIY RAM cooling hack on Reddit, crafting copper pipe heatsinks in about 45 minutes per stick to avoid spending roughly $20 on commercial versions. The build drew immediate pushback over copper\u2019s conductivity and the risk of short circuits, with commenters urging thermal insulating pads. It also revived [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A PC modder known as sunrise2209 shared a DIY RAM cooling hack on Reddit, crafting copper pipe heatsinks in about 45 minutes per stick to avoid spending roughly $20 on commercial versions. The build drew immediate pushback over copper\u2019s conductivity and the risk of short circuits, with commenters urging thermal insulating pads. It also revived [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":635330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-635329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}