SUPER COOLING A GEFORCE 3

Well i had a geforce3 ti500. It went, well it still goes well. Its now my tvout card for my divx box.

ANYWAYS, while it was in my main box, it was of course overclocked. Everything is. So obviously it got hot, so i needed a way of cooling it.
Well, i had a OEM xp2000 heatsink lying around, so my joyously thick head decided that it would be great to stick it onto my geforce 3 and see what happens!!!! So i did. These are the steps that i followed. Well... made up as i went along.

Get your geforce 3, or 2, or whatever card you want to do this with. The first thing you have to make sure is that you heatsink will fit. Mine does.... just barely.

Yes, the object of cooling... OEM xp2000+ heatsink. skived too...mmmmmmmmm

Will it fit?

YES. HOWEVER... that heatsink had a metal frame around it that held the fan. THAT had to come off otherwise it wouldnt have fitted. So i have lost my fan mounting points. But thats ok, its a problem to be solved later. As you can see, i have already put on nice chunky ram sinks, so it was with pure luck that this whole thing went together. Otherwise i would have given up. This is the heatsink i had on my gf3 BEFORE this mod.

Silver orb. Crap. The blue orb is better i think.

The naked gf3 core in all its beauty... remember these things used to be expensive, this one cost me 700 dollars.... its a leadtek card BTW.

So, how was i going to stick a lump of aluminium to this card? why of course the stupidest thing!!!!

muahahahaha can you hear the evil laughs? well its not me. This was serious!

Ok. mixed it up on the gpu core. Makes it all nice and uniform. Make sure you clean the core first though.

GLUE TIME

Todays experiment.. PASS!!!

How did i put the fan on?

I used 4 cable ties. I cut the head of, with about 3 cm of plastic tail left on it. I then coated that tail with super glue, and just pushed it through the hole into the heatsink fins. The fins are close enough to contact both sides of the tail, and with the super glue, created a good bond, that i can break if i never need to replace that fan. So... it worked!!!

RESULTS YOU SAY!

Well, i have a temp probe mounted on the BACK of the core. It registered a drop of about 7 degrees with this, after playing ut2k3 for 1 hour before this mod and after.

However overclocking potential was not changed, i believe this card needs a voltage mod, and i dont have enough balls for that... so pass. But, all in all, the card is now cooler, looks much better, and has a fan that has RPM monitoring on it as well. It goes well.

Need any questions answered, contact me.