Voodoo5 Overclocking?

[Gator]

Just curious, anybody ever trying hardcore overclocking a Voodoo5 to compete with current video cards? I mean with water cooling and/or giant-sized HSF's, how high could a V5 go and what would it compete with? Radeon 7000? GF3TI? What's the limit of the old king? :D

[digitalwanderer]

I don't know, but I've got a V5 5500 AGP that I'm willing to melt in the name of science........

How do I voltmod this puppy? :p

[Lunar]

V5's do not overclock well at all. The chips get to hot. If you supercool the front, you also have to supercool the back of the chips. And then, if you do, it will not go past 190 stable, and realisticly past 183 unless you cool the memory.

DO NOT VMOD IT!!!! Many have made this mistake, and even with watercooling it fried. You will not see very much of a performance gain either from overclocking the V5.

[digitalwanderer]

Thanks for the warning. Mine OCs pretty solid to 183ish if I recall, I guess I should be happy with that and mebbe just add some fins to me memory to help it dissipate the heat a bit better. :)

[False Christian]

I still have my 3dfx Voodoo5-5500 AGP and it works great! I'm never going to sell it as it will become a collector's item in the next few years, know what I'm sayin'?:smoking:

[micron]

Originally posted by False Christian
I still have my 3dfx Voodoo5-5500 AGP and it works great! I'm never going to sell it as it will become a collector's item in the next few years, know what I'm sayin'?:smoking:
Collectors item in the next few years?...their a collectors item now!. Where I live in California, collecting 3Dfx cards is taking off like crazy. You boyz need to HOLD ON TO THOSE CARDS!

[druga runda]

Originally posted by micron
Collectors item in the next few years?...their a collectors item now!. Where I live in California, collecting 3Dfx cards is taking off like crazy. You boyz need to HOLD ON TO THOSE CARDS!

:cool:

i have one in my old rig... :b:

:afro:

[Greb Jnnayr]

My local hardware store has like 5 used V5 in stock, they are selling them for like $30.

[ToxicFool]

Originally posted by micron
Collectors item in the next few years?...their a collectors item now!. Where I live in California, collecting 3Dfx cards is taking off like crazy. You boyz need to HOLD ON TO THOSE CARDS!

Uh oh! I still have my voodoo2, 3, and 5!

[nVidi0t]

I'm still running Voodoo 2 SLI in a 450mhz Gateway machine and even Quake 3 runs great!