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3D Power has posted an article how to upgrade the Voodoo 5 5500´s heatsink.



My Voodoo 5 5500 seemed to be having heat related problems, random crashes and atrifacts on screen, but no one else I spoke with seemed to have any heat related issues, and some went so far as to say thier V5 ran nice and cool... Well I was off to investigate.

The investigation took about 6 and a half secconds, I placed a finger on the back of the PCB directly oppisite the 2nd CPU and was not too suprized to see it was quite hot. I had a friend do the same thing, his was nice and cool. Strange. Time for a closer look.
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