[Garu]

Hey, I just recently overclocked my OEM Radeon 9000 Series 128mb.

I got it from 250/200 to 300/250mhz. That's when I start seeing artifacts in 3dMark2001. Right now, my OEM version is equiped with just a heatsink (the non-OEM comes with a fan). I'm wondering if I buy a fan for my card, will it let me overclock my card further? And what fan is compatible with the Radeon 9000 series?

[Moto7451]

Since it has a flat ceramic style surface I'd say you should get a Pentium/K62 cooler or a light copper Socket A heatsink & use Arctic Silver adhesive to attach it. If you can be creative you can cut up a large-ish cooler so that it doesn't interfere with the capacitors & other parts on the card & use a quiet 60mm fan or bigger possibly. On my Radeon 9100 I have a 45mm x 45mm 486 heatsink which is passive. I would recommend getting a cooler that uses at least a 50mm fan or better. That shouldn't cost you more than a few dollars & kill any Orb cooler or IceBerq.

[consumer9000]

If you get creative you can probably convine on of the Artic Cooling VGA silencers to cool your card, though the bracket may not line up. Otherwise, on of those elaborate heatpipe contraptions will be plenty, and if you can find a nice low profile CPU heatsink, epoxy that bugger on and you'll be good to go. Bear in mind all the overclocking in the world isn't going to help that card very much. If you wanna keep up with the newest titles, you'll need to consider upgrading soon, so keep that in ming when it comes time to shell out money for cooling mods.