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How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« on: January 26, 2005, 08:34:16 AM »
I just installed on an old pc, an old voodoo3 agp card, but I think it runs too hot...  8-)  after 5 mins of messing with the BIOS it is fairly hot... is this normal?
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #1 on: January 26, 2005, 08:40:52 AM »
Yep, hotter than the sun.
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2005, 10:39:45 AM »
Get a VGA cooler if you don't already have one. It will give you some peace of mind :-)
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #3 on: January 26, 2005, 10:54:58 AM »
How can I remove the stock heatsink? I removed the 2 metal screws holding it, but it is glued or something...
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #4 on: January 26, 2005, 10:57:20 AM »
use a chisel :-P
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #5 on: January 26, 2005, 11:00:13 AM »
You don't need to. Simply mount an appropriately sized fan on to the existing one. I have found in the past that the right length screws can screw down into the heatsink and hold the fan tight in place.

You'll probably need to leave a PCI slot free to make room for this.

Also make sure you have good overall airflow in your case. Often it's good to put a case extraction fan just above where the cards sit (usually inline with the location of CPU on an ATX motherboard) assuming your case has provision for this.
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #6 on: January 26, 2005, 11:06:11 AM »
I have a complete spage copper vga fan/heatsink set, and I was hoping to use that... I now wait for the v3 to get hotter while working, and maybe I can remove its heatsink...
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #7 on: January 26, 2005, 11:09:05 AM »
You'll find the glue it is attached with doesn't really soften much as it gets hot.

Crazy as it sounds, Speel is right - but you have to be very careful. The glue is brittle when cold and you can generally remove a heatsink with a chisel. I removed my old 040 card's pathetic heatsink and fan this way.

BUT: I wouldn't try this on a gfx card heatsink! The chances are that the BGA connections would come undone before the heatsink.
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #8 on: January 26, 2005, 11:13:08 AM »
hey, the warming did the trick... I twisted a little to the left and then to the right and it went off easily :-) ehehehheheh now I'll get it the new copper one :-) Thanx guys!
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #9 on: January 26, 2005, 11:14:36 AM »
Ok cool. Can't have been the same stuff that was on my 040 card then. That was like cement, no matter how hot it was ;-)

You might want to ensure you clean any of the glue thats left off the chip and put a bit of thermal transfer compound on.
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Re: How hot does a Voodoo3 AGP gets?
« Reply #10 on: January 26, 2005, 11:17:41 AM »
yep, I'll do that, the kit I bought has everything included... the compunt was like the one you find in pentium3/celeron cpu's... like gum
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