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#1
Look, I just bought some heatsinks made of copper wich measurements are 4 times bigger than the ones the card has. That keeps temperatures @ 40ºC Idle and 55ºC Full Charge.

In overclocking there's no magical setup that allows everyone to get the same results. It dependes a lot on your especific VSA. I'll explain this:

When 3dfx built on their VSAs chips they were all constructed and tested the same way a CPU is built. And of course there are chips that can run faster than others. In order to make a standard for the market they've put all V5 cards @ 166 MHz. But there are chips that can reach even more speed. Sometimes one of the two is best than the other (it's a 2 GPU card) and it limitates the preformance of the other. Thats the reason I could get 211 MHz, and of course a great refrigeration.

I put my tRC @ 8 times and tRAS @ 5 times.

Lowering other latencys made the card unstable.

But,it is a fact that increasing 1 or 2 times your latencys instead of lewering them, you may get a few MHz more. Try it!
#2
Just tested today, excelent, Same Results lowering latencys (alreay got mi V5 @ 211 MHz).
#3
Yeah, i was thinking about volt-modding. But firstly I must buy some other heatsinks, I was looking for Zalman's. Thank's  to god it's normal to reach that speeds, I was really surprised. So I will post my 3D Mark 01 results as soon I get my new heatsinks. I overclock since I'm a child but I'd never OCed on VGAs, only CPUs.

Greetings.
#4
Hi guys, well, I'm using my old 3DFX Voodoo 5 5500 on the following sistem:

- Pentium III 700 @ 811.9 MHz
- MoBo Soyo 7VCA-E
- DIMM 128 MB SDRAM 100 MHz A-Open
- HD Maxtor 3200 RPM 6,4 GB

I installed Windows xP SP2 and 3DHQ 1.09 Beta Drivers.

Screenshot of the overclock

I've been reading others threads about overclock and I see no one with VSA's past 200 MHz frequency. Mi OC is 100% stable with Temps round 50ºC - 60ºC. I used 3D Mark 2000 and 2001 several times, and I even tested playing 2 FPS (Doom 3 & Half Life) at the same time, both @ 1280x1024x16 & 76 Hz Refresh Rate. I had no trouble at all. I can even continue increasing the speed but 68ºC warned me now. So I'm looking for some good heatsinks (I have the originals) so I can OC a bit more (220 MHz is the Top).

But I ask to you: Is my VGA really running at that incredible speed or I'm dreaming? I just can't believe ir.

I will make an extensive benchmarks at differente speeds so you can compare if 211 MHz is really worth of it.

Cheers, and please advice me.