frying Voodoo cards left and right

**frying Voodoo cards left and right -** 06-21-2002, 00:01 | posts: n/a

My second Voodoo PCI board just died on me! The last one was almost a year ago, but twice in a lifetime seems too often to me. I'm not overclocking or anything like that, so what might be causing these cards to burn up and die?

I just ordered a new GeForce4, so I really don't want to have that get fried as well.

Any ideas y'all have would be greatly appreciated.

Golden Dragoon · 06-21-2002, 00:20 | posts: 1,287 | Location: Wandering in my own fantasy world

voodoo's always have run hot very hot so if the HSF has come even a slight ammount loose then it will over heat and die

06-21-2002, 00:32 | posts: n/a

Hmm....

Could be. My tower is teeny tiny, and there's not much space in there for air to circulate. Maybe I should put in an additional fan just in case?

Do you think the GeForce will run the same risk?

Aropredator · 06-21-2002, 02:47 | posts: 1,934 | Location: Malaysia

Any newer 3d accelerator card have those risk of being fried. With such core and memory running at very high speed, that why all those newer cards got heatsink/fan on the chip and sometimes on the memory as well.

07-18-2002, 00:11 | posts: n/a

I would definitely recommend getting a fan in your case, and make sure your PSU isn't gettin power spikes, or anything like that in your current that could possibly overload the card itself

Glidefan · 07-19-2002, 23:31 | posts: 11,890 | Location: Solar System, Earth, Med, Cyprus

Removing your case is and using adhesive tape or anything else you have lying there with your cables is good for the air's circulation.