OK..... So we know the stock cooling on the Voodoo5 5500 is far from perfect.
Did some research into alternatives and came accross the Zalman Northbridge Chipset Coolers.
I'd thought I'd chuck this up for discussion to see if anyone else had used or considered them.
(http://web.aanet.com.au/homeof/pc-physician/ZM-NB32J.JPG)
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=65&code=014
(http://web.aanet.com.au/homeof/pc-physician/ZM-NB47J.JPG)
http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/view.asp?idx=71&code=014
Leaving aside the issue of height blocking PCI slots, would these suckers sufficiently cool the VSA-100 chips on a Voodoo5 5500?
This review states that the ZM-NB47J can out perform stock Abit northbridge coolers by 2-3 degrees celcius.
http://www.myworldhardware.com/v4/articles.php?ID=75&Page_ID=3
And this one states the ZM-NB32J outperforms sock cooling by 3-5 degrees celcius.
http://www.gruntville.com/reviews/heatsinks/zalman_ZMNB32J/performance.php
I used the orange ones on my V5.
They work well but you need additional cooling (casefans or the stock V5 fans on these heatsinks) if you intend to do some intense long time (hours) playing.
Thanks for that NitroX!
Probably best to go for the active cooling solution. Apparantly the Globalwin heatsink fans are well regarded.
http://www.overclockers.com.au/techstuff/r_gpu_cool/
check out my solution [8D]
(http://www.3dfx.ch/gallery/albums/album37/1_G_001.sized.jpg)
Cool! I mean Cool?
They're Voodoo3 3000 Heatsinks right!? How'd they work?
Looks as though they'd spread the heat well!
QuoteOriginally posted by NitroX infinity
I used the orange ones on my V5.
They work well but you need additional cooling (casefans or the stock V5 fans on these heatsinks) if you intend to do some intense long time (hours) playing.
Interesting. How did you put the cooling fan on top of the heatsink? Did you modify the Zalman heatsink so it could mount a cooling fan? How about putting a Tennmax Voodoo5 fan on a Zalman heatsink? Is it possible?
If it's the fans I'm thinking of Kreshna, the Tennmax Stealth V3, they won't fit on top of a Zalman ZM-NB32J Heatsink! They have mounts that fit straight onto the Board. Much too wide for a 37(L) X 37(W) X 32(H) mm Heatsink.
Also the tennmax is a HSF all in one solution, you'd be doubling up on heatsinks when the zalman is overkill allready.
Good question though! How did the stock standard 40x40mm fans fit onto a 37x37mm heatsink[?]
I must say I like the Voodoo3 heatsinks! A totally fanless solution would be nice!
The standard V5 fans can be screwed onto the ZMNB32-J (the orange cooler).
They'll be a bit loosely but they've never fallen off when I used them.
You don't need to modify anything about them, the screws fit between the outer fins (don't know if that's the correct English word though)
QuoteOriginally posted by trigger
If it's the fans I'm thinking of Kreshna, the Tennmax Stealth V3, they won't fit on top of a Zalman ZM-NB32J Heatsink! They have mounts that fit straight onto the Board. Much too wide for a 37(L) X 37(W) X 32(H) mm Heatsink.
I see. :(
QuoteOriginally posted by trigger
Also the tennmax is a HSF all in one solution, you'd be doubling up on heatsinks when the zalman is overkill allready.
I wouldn't mind that, y'know! :D
QuoteOriginally posted by trigger
Good question though! How did the stock standard 40x40mm fans fit onto a 37x37mm heatsink[?]
Yup, while there's a lot of heatsink-cooling fan combo out there, almost none can fit into the Voodoo5; most of them are CPU coolers, so I wonder if we can assemble our own combo using Zalman ZM-NB32J heatsink and a cooling fan.
QuoteOriginally posted by trigger
I must say I like the Voodoo3 heatsinks! A totally fanless solution would be nice!
Is it better than the Zalman?
oij
QuoteOriginally posted by NitroX infinity
The standard V5 fans can be screwed onto the ZMNB32-J (the orange cooler).
They'll be a bit loosely but they've never fallen off when I used them.
You don't need to modify anything about them, the screws fit between the outer fins (don't know if that's the correct English word though)
Ah, I see! So the fan screws are being "pinched" by the heatsink fins to put the fan in place. Thus, I presume any cooling fan with same screw layout would fit onto a Zalman ZMNB32-J, am I correct? Then maybe we can use more powerful fan than the V5 stock fan?
You are correct Kreshna, though as I stated, the fans will be loosely screwed onto the heatsink. I have no idea how a more powerfull fan would act.
what you can use on a 3dfx card is almost limitless, alot of coolers dont say anything about 3dfx(why would they its been 5 years) but they fit without modification, others need slight to heavy mod's to work but if you really try almost any will fit, i used 2 geforce4 copper collers on my v5 and they worked way better than the stock heatsinks, left one only need slight cut to fit, right one fit perfect. some ppl even put p3 coolers on them :)
anyways i thought id post a couple modded ones ive done most recent
(http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/4359/bfg0082be.th.jpg) (http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bfg0082be.jpg)
(http://img240.imageshack.us/img240/3010/bfg0576dq.th.jpg) (http://img240.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bfg0576dq.jpg)
both of these were for use with peltiers, but they can be used by themsels too, anyways lots more options than you might first think.
Check these out too!
startech.com has some offerings as well!
http://startech.com/ststore/ItemDetail.cfm?ProductID=FANCSCU&tab=b&mt=p
http://startech.com/ststore/ItemDetail.cfm?ProductID=FANCSORB&tab=g&mt=p
The first one looks as though it might need a mod on the 3 pin connector.
It's only got two wires from the fan!
Nice Copper heatsink though!
May be able to chuck original fans on or something.
nice
check out my new modded voodoo
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turn off the light and ....
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titan cooler ttc-cuv3ab
ok, m14radu
you can read here
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=866
and
http://www.3dfxzone.it/enboard/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=1859
2 pictures : 1600*1200 and + 365 ko and + 430 ko
[:p]
This is my card. :)
(http://vganfo.uw.hu/pic/kenny_vgacool_front.jpg)
have tried somebody to put an otes cooling on a voodoo?
otes=outside thermal exhaust system, maded by abit company
whitch alternative are to keep cool the back side of a voodoo?
:)
see ya.
Nice photos of the titan coolers m14radu!
Any more details on how well these guy's went on. Straight forward was it?
I'm not so much into the lights as much as I'm into the cooling side of things.
These fans are by far the best that I've seen around.
Thanks for the POST!
the montage was not so easy because of the coolers was to big and hit the capacitors located in the middle of the board.
so i have to cut a little bit from this.
in the foto you cant see this.
the cooling solution is ok, but the backside of cips gets preety hot in games.
any solution how to keep cool the back side ?
aditional coler maybe?
thanx.
Hi guys, I run my V5500 AGP with two Termaltake Tornado Orb Socket A coolers since August 2005. Have a look here:
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With those two coolers it is possible to cool the VSA100s completely passive. I didn't remove the fans though because I needed the black plastic case of the fans for the cable ties that hold the coolers on the GPUs. I was very sceptical at the beginning if this would work out, especially because the coolers are pretty heavy and the card is of course mounted with the coolers hanging downwards, but everything worked out fine.
I bought those coolers on eBay, a pack of 5 for 8€ or so, so it was the cheapest solution for me. I came to this rather monstrous solution, because I wanted to build an oldschool gaming PC that was very silent, and because a friend of mine tried to cool his V5500 with two passive coolermaster northbridge coolers, I don't remember the exact name, but they were passive Heatsinks like the Zalman NB32 and this dind't work out very well. He had to mount an additional 80mm fan which blows onto the headsink, otherwise the card would overheat pretty fast in 3D mode.
As you can see in this picture the Tornado Orbs have some sort of mounting thread at the bottom where the original Socket A mounting plate was screwed on. That's why they absolutely don't interfere with any components on the card, because they reach their full diameter at ~8mm above GPU level...
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hehehe nice... I bet that Voodoo is the only thing you have in your case [8D] I mean... Look at the size of this 'boobies' they must take all the space in your case (taking out a possibility to instal some PCI devices by the way :D)
Summarising: Very nice :D
well, actually I use it on a MSI 6167 SlotA Mobo together with one SbLive 4.1 PCI Soundcard, a D-Link Gigabit PCI NIC, and one "oldschool" Realtek 10Mbit ISA NIC with BNC connector - hrhrhr:D.
But you're right, that Cooling Solution blocks 3 PCI slots...
.SLeEP ......that's fricken awesome dude! Nice one! :D
I guess you could hook those fan lines up to a switch if ever you wanted extra cooling power! Or would that ever be needed?
Did you use any thermal paste and those are cable ties right?
Still interested to hear from TM30 with his voodoo3 heatsinks and how well they worked pasively...
Yes, those are cable ties. I used some old Arctic Silver 3 Thermal Paste I had lying around.
I did this mod back in August 2005, and so far, didn't have any problems with it.
By the way, the PC is running pretty much 24/7, I use it as some kind of server...and of course occasionally for some oldschool gaming.
The two fans are currently not connected. The Voodoo is running completely passive. I also tried them at 5V (they are of course 12V fans). You don't really hear them at 5V, so this would be a good option if you want to use this mod in a case thats badly ventilated. But since passive is enough for me, I didn't connect them at all...
QuoteOriginally posted by m14radu
check out my new modded voodoo
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turn off the light and ....
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titan cooler ttc-cuv3ab
now that is the coolest mod ever seen yet on a Voodoo5 5500 AGP looks frikk'n cool man!!! [8D]:D[:I]
I'm also considering low profile 40mm to 60mm fan adapters.... Check it out!
(http://www.pccasegear.com/images/4060-uv-blue150.jpg)
http://www.pccasegear.com/prod1951.htm
You'd just mount these on the existing heatsinks leaving the two mounting holes around the GPU's free for mounting a 60mm fan on the back of the card if you wished.
m14radu was asking about cooling the back of the card before! I guess you were refering to the RAM chips though. Copper heatsinks would probably do.
These are the go.....
(http://www.coolermaster.com/product_common_images/5235f647c16f6eae03d7fa672c855c83.jpg)
http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?url_place=product&p_serial=CRC-U01
A fast no mess option I guess.
Still doesn't address the crapy glue situation with the original heatsinks though.
My card:
(http://666kb.com/i/117mwg79ierk1.jpg)
Where did you find the passive coolings ? on a Voodoo 3 ?
Nope. These are Medion Geforce 3 Ti200 heatsinks. :)
QuoteOriginally posted by roflkopp
Nope. They are Medion Geforce 3 Ti200 heatsinks. :)
/edit: Voodoo3 heatsinks would also fit horizontally, but in black they are very rare.
And i like the idea to put Geforce heatsinks on a Voodoo 5. :D
Quote/edit: Voodoo3 heatsinks would also fit horizontally
I presume like TM30's post up near the top in the thread?
I'm not especially well up on this sort of thing, so I'm wondering how these are fitted; any clues would be appreciated, since I'm looking at something similar myself as part of a quieter computer effort. If anyone can give me an idea as to how well they cool, too, I'd appreciate it.
Here are some shots of my Voodoo MAC Cooling Mod.
I couldn't get hold of the Vantec Iceberq Copper.
So I went with the Evercool Twinkling VGA Cooler.
All Copper Cooling Solution with priority on Cooling rather than quietness.
You can put less voltage through these fans to get the best of both worlds.
(http://web.aanet.com.au/homeof/pc-physician/Front.JPG)
(http://web.aanet.com.au/homeof/pc-physician/Back.JPG)
(http://web.aanet.com.au/homeof/pc-physician/SideOn.JPG)
The Evercool Twinkling VGA Cooler was a tight fit. Especially the right VSA-100.
I had to loosen the fan when fitting to rearange the seating, because the caps would of had too much pressure on them.
http://www.evercool.com.tw/products/vc_re.htm
CoolerMaster Pure Copper Ram Sinks
http://www.coolermaster.com/index.php?url_place=product&p_serial=CRC-U01
BTW: I Cured my friends flaky 9800pro with one of these coolers. Cleared up all artifacts. Stable as.
I was so impressed I chucked one on my own 9800pro.
Benchmarked it before and after with much better 3DMark scores than stock cooling.
I think the VSA-100 will be Child's Play for these Coolers. ;)
I'm thinking of doing an outrageous cooling mod next.
These bent into shape.
(http://prohardver.hu/pics/newsx/2006-05/15541_tt_xs_ii.jpg)
http://www.thermaltake.com/product/Cooler/VGAnCHIPnMEM/cl-c0034/cl-c0034.asp
Heatpipe technology arrives for V5! :D