Attention V5 owners:

[SuperGroove]

2Cooltek is selling a cooling kit for the venerable V5 5500. That link is here

2Cooltek's V5 5500 cooling solution

Not quite satisfied? Are you recuperating from sticker shock? Well take a look and the badboys I put on my V5

RDJD's K601, reviewed at Overclockers.com

I wish I had pictures...but I don't have a digital camera. Anyways, I got my V5 used, and I bought it without knowing how well it overclocked, until AFTER i got it. The previous owner told me 173MHZ...now it purrs at 185MHZ. 19MHZ(from stock) increase ain't so bad

Paul

Edit: I paid $6.50 for each K601s from Millisec.com. It seems they don't have em anymore

 

[Deeko]

Yea I saw that at 2CoolTek. Looks really sweet. But I have a bit of a dud overclocking wise, it won't even do above 170 anymore, so the extra cash for the kit probably wouldn't help me much.

 

[Wingznut]

How do you go about removing the stock heatsinks?

 

[SuperGroove]

Some people stick their V5s in a plastic bag, then stick it in a freezer for awhile. Afterwards, the next process is the same for everyone, to just stick a screwdriver under the heatsink, and pry it off.

Paul

 

[Tates]

My V5 5500 is outfitted with the 2CoolTek Alpha fins on the Toshiba SDRAMs, secured with thermal epoxy. It sports twin Tennmax Coolers, lubed with ArcticSilver thermal grease. With stock cooling, it would only hit 173mhz, now it runs stable at 186mhz.

 

[SuperGroove]

I wish I had Arctic Silver, I know that stuff would allow me to clock higher.

Without the RAM sinks, do you think you could clock to 186MHZ

 

[Tates]

Don't know if it's the ram sinks that make the difference, but it doesn't hurt, and it looks cool. Although the Tennmax coolers are great performers for their compact size, I wonder if I could push it to 200 with some copper heatsinks with heavy duty Delta fans....

 

[RoboTECH]

Tates, its all about the RAM. If your RAM can take it, you'll be in like flynn...