Anyone using a blue orb on a voodoo 3?

[snow patrol]

I'm thinking about putting one of those little blue orb jobbies on my voodoo 3 to cool things down and hopefully overclock a bit more. Does anyone have this setup already? Is it relatively painless to install etc? Also, what's the performance like?

Thanks

 

[snow patrol]

^^bumpy^^

 

[Dark4ng3l]

The limiting factor on v3's is the memory. If you put thermal paste on the cpu and use a fan on the standard heatsinc you should reach the limits anyway.

 

[snow patrol]

ok, thanks. So what exactly is a BORB supposed to be used on? I couldn't see it being much use on a Geforce as the limiting factor on those is very much the memory as well...hmmn.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

On a Geforce you can at least clock the chip faster on a voodoo3 they are synchronised so you cant just o/c the chip if the memory cant take it.

 

[Soccerman]

I once tried to overclock my Voodoo 3 2k pretty high. previously I stayed at 183mhz, simply because my RAM was rated at 5.5 ns (default clock is 181mhz). however once adding a nice big fan to the side panel of my case (a 120mm fan blowing in on the video card, and on the CPU a bit), I tried to overclock it as much as possible. I got to 195mhz without problems.

pushed it eventually to 200, tried to run a 3d program. instant lockup.

backed it down to 199, ran a 3D program. all is good.. wait, a few artifacts start showing up halfway into the demo, finally, freeze.

what does this tell me? it was overheating. I didn't have anything special ON the Voodo 3 at all, only the 120mm fan blowing partially on it.

I recently replaced my CPU heatsink/fan with an FOP32. on this heatsink I had 2 small fans on it. I will eventually put one fan on the normal Voodoo 3 heatsink, and the bigger heatink on the back of the Voodoo 3, with the remaining fan on it.

I'll see then if 200mhz is unstable becuase of the chip, or because of the RAM.

 

[snow patrol]

Cool, well let us know how it goes soccerman I think I'll probably get a BORB any way - it's bound to come in useful sometime, plus it's very cheap...

 

[oldfart]

Like Soccerman said, it depends on your ram. I had a V3 3K that came with the 5.5ns stuff. It ran 183 with the stock HS and no fan (just like a V 3500 does). What V3 do you have? V3 2K or 3K? The 3K has a huge HS compared the the 2K.

 

[snow patrol]

I actually have a 3k (AGP) and a 2k (PCI)