Thanks for the tips, fellas, 😀

I should add that I was writing about how to clean off the excess glue, not how to separate the chip from the heatsink. Soaking the whole card with evil solvents isn't going to help get those apart. 😀

Well, actually it might but I bet that stuff would do other bad things to the card 🤣.

The zalman northbridges come with a syringe of thermal epoxy each. It'd probably come off if you wanted it to (isn't industrial strength like the arctic silver stuff).

Sorry for the Necro, but I eventually found the discussion regarding to mobos reccomended for Voodoo5 --hope it helps.

2.5 years ago,

Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:

... this comes from someone who has four Voodoo5 5500 AGP and five Voodoo5 5500 PCI Mac. 😉

How many have you got now? 😉

Amigaz wrote:

GL1zdA wrote:

Yes, I am aware of this. I have an AGP version. The PCIs are too expensive (probably Amiga guys look for it, because its the fas […]
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Silent Loon wrote:

Welcome GL1zdA,

remember that - if you don't have the PCI version - all Voodoo5s are for the agp 2x slot, they run with 3.3V, NOT with 1.5V (AGP 4x) or 0.8V (AGP 8x). Running a 3.3.V card in a 1.5V Slot will destroy the card and / or the board! Normally cards and slots are keyed so you can't mix them. Nevertheless I've heard that there were some early P4 boards with 4x AGP that were not keyed, and also cards that had jumpers on it to select the right AGP speed / voltage (TNT2s board i.e. Diamond Viper Ultra), which some people oversaw - bzzzzzz !

Yes, I am aware of this. I have an AGP version. The PCIs are too expensive (probably Amiga guys look for it, because its the fastest that goes with their PCI expansion boards).

Silent Loon wrote:

By the way: there are forums of voodoo specialists on the web, where this particular question ("which is the fastest board for my V5") is discussed, so a little google search may be useful.

I tried to find a benchmark showing the Voodoo performance with various CPUs for 0.5h and simply hadn't enough time to look for the other setups. (or maybe I just asked google the wrong questions 😀)

Yeah, Amigan's are driving up the Voodoo 3/4/5 PCI Ebay prices

I know since I'm one of them 😁

Yeah and you're also driving up the prices on all the 68040 chips I need for my Mac Quadras, damn your eyes! 😠

There aren't any mounting holes on Voodoo5.

A bit late, only by about two years, but just to set the record straight, they do have mounting holes. Two at the corners of each chip... I forget the exact hole spacing, but it's a standard one supported by most of the small VGA/chipset coolers.

After 2 years of thinking, I'm now building a Voodoo 5500 PC on the Abit KT7 RAID (KT133) with Athlon Thunderbird 1000B. This Athlon was released on June 5, 2000, the Voodoo 5500 in June 2000 and the KT133 somewhere at that time. This would be the fastest PC you could build for the 5500 launch and after all these years I decided to always build 'historically accurate' PCs. My original idea was to build it with a dual BX board, but I want to run 98SE, so the additional CPU would do nothing. And the 1 GHz Athlon is faster (most of the time) than the 1 GHz PIII, which is also extremely rare (the 100 FSB version).

For the Voodoo, I will use a nice ASUS XP55T2P4 - 430HX ATX mobo with Pentium 200 MMX CPU. This machine is GLQuake themed. GLQuake was released January 22, 1997. It will run 95 OSR/2.0 and I will use AWE64 Gold for sound.

The counterargument to that is that at that period at least the GPU was one of the driving development forces rather than one of those that was driven by developments elsewhere. I don't think it's necessarily a bad match, but the power of the GPU at release would've been further along the curve than the CPU, so you ideally you would probably want a CPU that was from maybe a year and a half down the line.

so you ideally you would probably want a CPU that was from maybe a year and a half down the line.

Well, actually, it's right around 1ghz that the V5 really hits its stride. Yeah, it'll scale with faster CPUs than that, up to ~2ghz reportedly, but that mostly applies for lowered settings, not so much in 32-bit color with FSAA.

I need to come to terms with cooling my V5 as well. This made for an interesting read, but I guess I have to grab a 12 inch fan and build some airflow guides from card board.