First post, by retro games 100
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This is an ATI Radeon "3D Prophet FDX" 8500 LE. The heatsink blocks 2 of the PCI slots. Nice.
Reply 1 of 5, by exxe
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not my card or picture
Reply 2 of 5, by keropi
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@retro games 100:
that is a user installed heatsink, I recognise it - it is a 3rd party chipset one ... very poor choise of the previous owner 🙁
Reply 3 of 5, by swaaye
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Yeah, that heatsink on the 8500 is a Zalman chipset cooler. I've bought one before. I think that is adequate to passively cool a Radeon 8500 GPU. They don't put out that much heat.
http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=2236
The Voodoo5 photo is just stupid. That is more than simple overkill there. VSA-100 is probably a ~10W chip.
Reply 4 of 5, by PowerPie5000
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I also have one of those Zalman coolers attached to my old Matrox G400 Max. I think it does a fine job at keeping it cool, better than the tiny stock cooler with the loud fan 😀
Reply 5 of 5, by vlask
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Yep its zalman chipset cooler, been using it on mine ABit NF7-S mobo some years back.
Not only mine graphics cards collection at http://www.vgamuseum.info