Cooling V5500

Started by aquasonic, 31 May 2006, 16:01:54

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aquasonic

Summer's comming and in Greece temperatures grow rapidly...

In my AT case my poor V5500 causes system restarts when rendering 3d graphics because of the the high temperatures (i couldn't keep my finger on her because of the temps.) More than that, the USB 2.0 pci host i installed leaves only ~0.5cm of air gap between her and V5's first fan.

The sollution is found with my 12cm TT silent fan. I made a hole in the case so it could get air from the outside and throw it directly to the first VSA and the other cards! the case temps are a lot better.

What i thought, is that if the TT can do so much work, and it is silent, an the fans of 5500 make a lot noise and do nothing, why not removing them! but, will this benefit or not my V5500? i will remove only the fans, not heatsinks (that would be stupid by me :P)

Also, i have 2 486 cupper heatsinks. They are bigger than the stock ones. And since they are from cupper i believe they would do better work. What do u say? :)
my 3Dfx pc GOT UPGRADED :D

AMD K6-III 400 @ 450mhz FIC V3 503+ 256mb sdram VOODOO 5 5500 AGP!!! 5 usb pci adapter SB 16 Isa pnp drive 2x seagate meddalist 3.2gb Asus cd-rom TDK cdrw 250w psu and a veeryyy old LAN card windows 98SE Raziel64's Evolution driver Wintv GO! FM2 isa Radio card Rockwell 34k modem :p

bloodworm

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go for it.  the original heatsinks and fans were poorly stuck on.  there is a way to get the glue to remove in one snap if you freeze the card in the freezer.  look for the technique in this forum.....
Bloody Mess

aquasonic

Xmm, i also have another question...

My Heatsinks do not have any screws... How will i install them?

I thought of using instant superglue at edges and Artic Ceramique in the center of each chipset... Would that work?
my 3Dfx pc GOT UPGRADED :D

AMD K6-III 400 @ 450mhz FIC V3 503+ 256mb sdram VOODOO 5 5500 AGP!!! 5 usb pci adapter SB 16 Isa pnp drive 2x seagate meddalist 3.2gb Asus cd-rom TDK cdrw 250w psu and a veeryyy old LAN card windows 98SE Raziel64's Evolution driver Wintv GO! FM2 isa Radio card Rockwell 34k modem :p

Mikulaish

 

trigger

Check out Steph3dfx's cooling!

http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3068

I'm now using The Evercool Twinkling VGA Cooler (VC-RE) cause I couldn't get hold of the Vantec Copper.



:D
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trigger

Just make sure you really want to go with that Heatsink.

QuoteCAUTION!
Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive is a permanent adhesive.
Components you attach with Arctic Silver Thermal Adhesive will stay attached forever.



Voodoo5 5500 AGP
Voodoo5 5500 PCI DVI x3 (exorcised MAC cards)
Voodoo4 4500 PCI
Voodoo2 1000 PCI x4 (two boxed and factory sealed)
Voodoo1
miroHISCORE 3D
Canopus PURE3D