Cooling a voodoo3

[Tyrant222]

I have a voodoo3 PCI overclocked right now and it gets pretty damn hot, about the only thing that gets hot in my system besides my Duron. I didnt want to spend 8 bucks for a Blue Orb so i wandering if one of those 486 HSF's (4$) would do the trick. Is it worth the 4 bucks or is a Blue Orb wayyy better?

Thanks for advice/comments

 

[jsbush]

486 fan is plenty. That's all I did when I had my voodoo, the heat sink was to hot to touch, put a 486 fan on it and it was barly warm.

 

[toph99]

i have a 486 fan screwed into the origional hs with self-tapping screws. works wonders 🙂

 

[chiggachu]

where can you get a 486 fan? i need to cool my voodoo 3 2k too

 

[vfrjim]

I used a PII fan that I removed from a slot 1 HS, mounted perfectly on the HS of the V3 3000, I also removed the HS from the video card and lapped it and took off the tape that it was adheared with and used some Arctic silver that I had hanging around, it is rock stable at 194 hz, far cry from the 166 hz default, I could not get this card over 188 before I lapped the HS and used arctic silver.

Jim

 

[papayou]

here is mine 😉

i use a athlon heatsink cutted in 9 parts (aqua 650)
a big one for the core and 8 parts for the ram chips

175 max before the mod
201 now rock solid

http://luc.ferrie.free.fr/voodoo3face.jpg

http://luc.ferrie.free.fr/voodoo3profil.jpg

 

[GiZzO]

Heres my my quiet cooling solution for my voodoo3, Xeon heatsink on chip, and the stock heatsink on the back of the chip. 80mm 20db fan blows right over those sinks.

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