Heat Sinks on the back of V cards?

[AlanSr]

Would HS's on the back of a video card "hercules geforce 2gts" help performance?

if so what would you use to attach it?

[gouki]

Hmm, I dont think so ..

[Silversinksam]

Alan,

If you put an adequate heatsink on the front you need not worry about the back, and I have read a few threads discussing this but it just not practicle due to clearance issues of the capacitors and what not.

Good thread talking about cooling the GPU (http://forums.overclockers.ws/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35994)

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Off topic so turn up your speakers (http://www.doubtlessdesigns.net/)

[Monaco]

I went through a lot of effort to grind a heatsink down so it JUST fit in between those caps on my GTS- yeah it got hot, so it did something but not too much. No extra stability for me anyway. On my Voodoo 3, however, different story. Has a flalt back so I slapped a fat sink on and it helped a lot, 10 mhz more I could get!

[Über~PhLuBB]

Originally posted by AlanSr
Would HS's on the back of a video card "hercules geforce 2gts" help performance?

if so what would you use to attach it?

On the AMD (heatwise) of Video cards, the Voodoo 5 5500, RAMsinks on the back would be effective. Any other card, aside from another 3DFX card, the Voodoo3 3500, would not be benefitted by using rear RAMsinks.

Slap on an old Pentium Pro HSF on the GPU, and some trimmed Slot CPU HSF's for the RAM, and you'll be juuust fine.