ok, i know this isn't EXACTLY the board to put it on, but someone here might have some input
i am planning on oc-ing my voodoo3 2000 pci, and i have done some things to cool it more, as most of you know it gets VERY hot. enough to burn you... believe me, i know, lol. there is only a small heatsink on it, so i bought a 486 fan from radio shack, and screwed it on with some self tapping screws. i have no idea what the CFM for this fan is, but it works well. i places it so the air was blowing down onto the heatsink. i figured this worked better with a low cfm fan than trying to draw air up through it, am i correct? and i just added an 80mm intake fan over the card. the heatsink fan cooled the heatsink from searing hot to just quite warm, as well as cools the memory somewhat, though it never got more than slightly warm. there is a little chip on the top corner(if u have one of these, u know what i'm talking about) with a funny looking metal incasing around it, i am assuming a form of heatsink. this still gets very hot, because it is too far away from the heatsink to benifit from the fan. i positioned the 80mm fan more or less over it, so it should be getting cooled, though i have no way of knowing because it is hard to take off the side of my case with the fan there. now my question is, even though the card is still very warm, but not burn-your-finger hot, would overclocking it like this have minimal chance of me ruining the card? it was running extremely hot before i put any kind of active cooling, andthat is how 3dfx shipped it, so with all this extra, should it be ok? thanx =)
i am planning on oc-ing my voodoo3 2000 pci, and i have done some things to cool it more, as most of you know it gets VERY hot. enough to burn you... believe me, i know, lol. there is only a small heatsink on it, so i bought a 486 fan from radio shack, and screwed it on with some self tapping screws. i have no idea what the CFM for this fan is, but it works well. i places it so the air was blowing down onto the heatsink. i figured this worked better with a low cfm fan than trying to draw air up through it, am i correct? and i just added an 80mm intake fan over the card. the heatsink fan cooled the heatsink from searing hot to just quite warm, as well as cools the memory somewhat, though it never got more than slightly warm. there is a little chip on the top corner(if u have one of these, u know what i'm talking about) with a funny looking metal incasing around it, i am assuming a form of heatsink. this still gets very hot, because it is too far away from the heatsink to benifit from the fan. i positioned the 80mm fan more or less over it, so it should be getting cooled, though i have no way of knowing because it is hard to take off the side of my case with the fan there. now my question is, even though the card is still very warm, but not burn-your-finger hot, would overclocking it like this have minimal chance of me ruining the card? it was running extremely hot before i put any kind of active cooling, andthat is how 3dfx shipped it, so with all this extra, should it be ok? thanx =)
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