Well, they can always be removed, and cooler operation= longer life.
The size is... interesting, though.

Yeah... Why put them on both sides? Not sure if putting coolers on the bottom would make a huge difference. But either way i love the mod. Im sure it runs a lot cooler.

So it runs cooler but you loose all of your slots at once, so no sound card, no sata card, but you can has a cold voodoo

Oh man. I had one of those alu frame fans. Hate them. That V5 thing is just monster heavy and too big.

I would be more concerned about the weight of that monstrosity on one of those old PCI connectors. PCI-E connectors are much shallower and seem slightly more able to handle the weight... I'd be terrified of that thing causing stress damage to the card.

melbar wrote:

When i see these pictures, than i am thinking what the hell the person, who was responsible for this mod, their intensions are ...

Just a retard, or troll probably. 😀

you can damage more than you cool with that weight....

Usually Im in favour of putting custom coolers on hardware. After all, a cool card is happy card with a long lifespan.
This however is more likely to break the card than properly cool it.

Munx wrote:

Usually Im in favour of putting custom coolers on hardware. After all, a cool card is happy card with a long lifespan.

I'm just in favor of buying cards with good factory coolers. 😀

At first glance it didn't look too big. Then I got familiar with how large the Voodoo 5 actually is. This is quite a monstrosity. Someone trying to overclock these things?

dr_st wrote:

Munx wrote:

Usually Im in favour of putting custom coolers on hardware. After all, a cool card is happy card with a long lifespan.

I'm just in favor of buying cards with good factory coolers. 😀

yeah but at that time, the factory coolers were...shabby, crappy, loud,small, ineffective 😁

(I like the asus stryx series nowadays with really good and silentcoolers)