voodoo 5 overheating??

[Chromeus]

I just got a uumm used voodoo5 and before i had a voodoo3 , did a fresh install of windows 2000 and its works great in tribes and other games ,but freezes the system everytime in unreal tournament !!
Even in the server refresh screen ,I had this problem before and i found out one of the fans on the voodoo 5 stoped spinning I flicked with my finger and its spinning fine now , but ut is starting to lockup th whole system again (sigh) and i looked everywhere in event viewer and nothing shows up ,
its does seem like heat would be the problem but i dont know for sure , I can play tribes for 6 hours straight with 4x FSAA on and it never ever freezes , i turn off FSAA when playing ut but it still locks up I check my bios and turned off 4x agp still froze, changed the apiture size still froze
turned on 4x agp again still froze opened case still froze I have all shadowing turned off and its still freezes I has the lastest drivers and it locks (I am going crazy and miss my voodoo3 ) I dont think its my system
I have a kt7 pro2-a (anandtech review) and a sound blaster live
along with an amd t-bird 950 (big cooling fan ) and three more 80mm cooling fans in the case (q500)
please help if you can

 

[Mykex]

The V5 Doesnt use AGP4X try running it at 2X.
Also it doesnt use apiture memory but they suggest using 64.
Mine dosent like when you force 4X or Fast writes.
Wish I could help more........

 

[Chromeus]

but i tried something else and it works ..... I turned the settings to single processor only and ut never crashed but if i set it to both ie fastest performance than ut crashes right away but tribes still playes fine on both ??

 

[jawaki]

Just play Quake III esp RA mod.
j/k!!! Im a Quake nut.

 

[Blain]

I swapped my original V5 fans out for some 50mm fans. Before I did that I pulled the HS off and replaced the epoxy (crappy factory job), with some T412 Thermattach tape. Just for that "little extra", I lapped the HS before reinstalling them.
Even after all that, the backside of the V5 was pretty hot, just over the GPUs. So I slapped an 80mm fan on it!
I used the little plastic standoffs that come with MBs to lift the 80mm fan up from the V5. The two standoffs closest to the outside edge of the card I left alone. The two on the inside, I cut the little extra pin thingie off. That way the 80mm fan is tilted slightly so that more air is blown outward.

That's all it takes to get a V5 running cool.