voodoo 5500 heat sink switch

[ms-dos]

i have 2 rage 128 pro and took the heat  sink off of them and am going to put them on a voodoo 5500 that would help them cool down a bit there about 2 times bigger than the heat sink that the voodoo 5500 has I'm keeping  the same fans to would this be a good thing to do  

[m14radu]

The original cooling of the voodoo5 is not the best.
Especially the thermal paste is very bad.
Replacing the heatsink and using another thermal paste will keep your card cooler and increase his live.

Please post some picture with the moded card !

[ms-dos]

Originally posted by m14radu

The original cooling of the voodoo5 is not the best.
Especially the thermal paste is very bad.
Replacing the heatsink and using another thermal paste will keep your card cooler and increase his live.

Please post some picture with the moded card !

i was going to glue it with super glue but but i thank i go by sum  thermal paste whats the price of thermal paste i never bot it befor  and whats the best kind  

[ms-dos]

I'm going to swap the heat sink for the voodoo3 2000 to and add a fan the  heat sink is a custom Pentium 1 heat sink met for massive overclocking  kept a Pentium 1 120mhz cool a 150mhz and kept it cool at 133mzh without the fan I'm might get a faster fan and pot a heat sink on the back of it to this is not at the top of my list more so at the bottom I'll post pics of it in the voodoo3 in Modding and overclocking spot on this site when i get to it

[m14radu]

Don`t use super glue, use thermal paste !
There is from arctic cooling some thermal adhesive paste, that u can try.

[ms-dos]

Originally posted by m14radu

Don`t use super glue, use thermal paste !
There is from arctic cooling some thermal adhesive paste, that u can try.

i went with the thermal paste i finish it and there very little heat wen i get the time i will post sum pis  

[H-street]

just in case anyone wants some alternative i bought a roll of thermal tape (double sided) that i use for ram sinks and i've found it works great for 3dfx / voodoo cards.   stick on very secure and does a great job of transfering the heat.

i popped all my voodoo 5 / voodoo4 v3 etc.. sinks off, cleaned them and used the tape and it works great.

its tricky to find but its been worth its weight in gold to buy a roll of it.