does tht means 80C and below will be fine for the vsa100?And what do you mean by the junction temp?

wouldn't tht takes up lot time?How can i saw a heatsink small enought to fit in?

i inntiately tried placing the stock cooling and place it on the back of the core,but i scrap the plan as the heatsink wasn't touching the backside of the core but those resistors around it,and i need help on this problem.How can i stick the heatsink on to the backside of the core.

Hank since you have did the mod b4,is it possible i send my v5500 to you and you do the mod for me and how much would it cost to mod the card?

50%!!!,isn't that amount of heat abit too much i replace the the hsf again with pentium cooler and the backside of the core is running hot,so how is it possible to extrate the heat away frm the back of core?If the backside continue to run tht hot will it cause harm to the card in long run?

i mean the back of the vsa100,it is gets really hot and even hotter then my r9000pro and it scource my HANDS!!!

I just brought a pair of blue orb and fix it on my v5500 using termal pad.And the orb gets quite warm after 1hr of operation but whe i touch the back of the core,it is very hot and scource my hands is this ok? or the card is overheating?

i dont really know a shop who ca do this,but i do know a person who is really good at soldering,and abt the ram ,i can easily get them,because in singapore the is a building(actually it is a shopping mall)which actually specially specialise in chips sales,so i could get them easily but as for the price i dont really know i hope it is not too expensive,now i only hope Hank could really give us some infomation abt the hynix chips,as i really want to know is the ram could be use on the v5500.And details on doing the mod.
(P.S,my english is not really gd,and pls dont laugh if the grammer sound weird to you)

i went to hynix website,and i found 2 of them HY57V283220T,HY57V283220T-I so i suppose it is the latter one as is the most similar to the toshiba chip found on the v5500.The voltage and pin is the same(that is wat i think).But both datasheet i can notices some  different,so can the mod be fesiable?But if hank say it is possible i will believe him,but can you ask him to show some screenies and some instruction on doing the mod?

nice benchies,i have a axp 1700@1618 with sdram,i bench my system with a voodoo 5500pci,and i got a slightly higher FillRate(Multi-Texturing) 578MTexels/s,but the problems is i get onli 25fps on game1 low details wtf....does anyone know the reasons?
P.S i have a k7s5a mobo with 512mb sdram @147fsb agressive timing and winxp with all updates and amigamerlin 3.0

i went to the tosiba website to find out more abt the memeory,1 things for sure is that forget abt find 16meg version of those chips as they are no longer manufacturing them.And thats is where the problems starts,as if uread the specs of the chips it is 43by44pins layout,and how the hell are we going to find ram chips with this type of layout?

So can anyone list the type of ram,brand and model number that is actually that is going to be able to be use on the v5500?

So as long the ram has 45pins per side will that be workable on the voodoo 5500?I propaly will start looking for them.btw,i d/l the the 3dfx source code today and found out that the v5500 support sgram?will that give me better performance and wat if i cant find 16meg chips and only 32megs chips are avalible can i use them? And will the card recongise them and take advantages of them,and so in theory that means each vsa100 will have an wopping 128meg memory avaliable to them.

Since modifying the v5500 to 128meg is possible,i was wondering if moding it will be a major feat anot,as if ulook carefully at the pins sticking out of the ram,is too fine will that be very difficut to unsolder?Next is i think all sort of sd-ram should be able to use as since the design should be the same.

huank,after hearing abt implementing 128meg of ram on the voodoo 5500,if it is possible,wat sort of memory modules could be use and can we use ddr memory modules on it?And as for 2xVoodoo 5500,i think that would not very feasible as these cards would be very hard to find now adays.