Running hot.

[PP Mguire]

My older Geforce3 TI500 has a 950mhz Duron HSF on it (Volcano 5 for those who want to look it up) and i cant OC it at all. When i had the stock cooler i could almost OC over 200mhz stock. Whats the deal? Its sanded and all that good stuff and i have AS5 on it. Any clues?

[Das Capitolin]

PP, what led you to believe that card was over-clockable? I could never get anything more out of the older cards.

[PP Mguire]

Because it says on the box OC edition. Not to mention ive always OCed my video cards since the Voodoo2 days. Id also say its pretty OCable if i can get a good 200mhz over stock with the stock HSF. What gets me and my question here is i have the bigger one on it and why cant i get more than 50mhz out of it now?

[Kougar]

If it says OC edition on the box then should already be OCed above normal specs for a Ti.

Is it possible the cooler isn't cooling something the stock cooler had previusly been, like the voltage regulator or RAM?

[werty316]

GF3 ti500 use ramsinks so that couldn't be the problem. I had a GF3 ti500 and the GPU heatsink only cools the GPU core.

200MHz on a GF3 ti500 is a bit far fetched. Check and see that the heatsink has full contact with the GPU core since the CPU cooler wasn't made to be used on a video card.

[PP Mguire]

It is making full contact with cpu and the cooler is only meant to cool the GPU. 200mhz is far fetched but it has been done, by me. Ive seen posts of somebody doing almost the same thing with a TNT2. The older cards can take alot of stress really. Also, it was only OCed i think 10 or 15mhz above regular but according to their site (way back when) it was a great OCer and also its on the not so normal black PCB.