For Maggi...

[Cole]

Maggi,

I am basically a lurker here, but I have a question for you.

I remember a few months back when you posted pictures of your modified G400. I have both a G400 and G400MAX and would like to tweak the hell out of them, but first I need cooling. What kind of cooling do you have on the card? I remember somthing about a 80mm fan on one side attached with superglue or something. A picture would be nice, too. If you need to, you can email them too me at cole@cole3d.com.

Thanks,
Cole

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Hey Cole,

I know I'm not Maggi, but I too learned from here pics. I have a Vanilla Dual-Head and Vanilla Single-Head. Here are the pics:

Vanilla G400 DH


Vanilla G400 SH


I know it's nothing compared to Maggi's work but worth a try. :

CHEERS......

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Hey Maggi,

Why don't you post your G400 pics again??

CHEERS......

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PIII 500MHz@560MHz
Gigabyte BX2000+ w/UDMA66
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 6X SCSI 32X
Yamaha 4260 SCSI CD-Rewritable Drive
2 X IBM 9.1 HDD UMDA66
Vanilla G400 32MB Dual Head@MAX Settings
CL Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
ACS45.1 Speakers
Twin 17" LG Flatron (Primary & Secondary)

[This message has been edited by Iskandhar Shahril (edited 16 January 2000).]

[cybernavy]

I too have an G400 DH and just bought two fan's. I'll screw one onto the heatsink and I want to place the other, with another small heatsink, on the back off the G400.

How did you guys and girls put it on.
Just with glue or with special pc glue (if that excists).

I don't want to burn my G400 because I used glue that isn't good for the alluminium/copper/...(?) connections on the board.

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Aopen AX6BC bios 2.47 , celeron 416 mhz (default 333 mhz),Quantum KX 13.5 gig 7200 rpm, Quantum EX 6.4 gig 5400 rpm, Matrox G400 DH 32 mb drivers 5.41 with turboGl drivers(latest) bios 1.04, soundblaster Live ! player, four point surround speakers, realtek RTL8139[a] 10/100 Mbit, 2 * 64 mb 100 mhz ram, cdrom Aopen 48x, sampo 800SDT 19 inch @ 1280*768, trust 14inch @800*600, cable modem (cool) and other stuff

[Cole]

nice setup iskandar...so you were able to reach 150/200 with your vanilla G400?

i can get my vanilla G400 to 150/200, but i actually leave it at the default clock because i don't play any games on that machine. with the regualar MAX cooling, i couldn't get it past 165 core/210 memory (i think the memory was 210) i think it has something to do with the cooling, that's why i wanted to find out more about Maggi's Suped-Up G400™...

[Cole]

bump, for Maggi...

[Maggi]

Thanx for crediting guys ...

I used regular superglue, because I didn't find any proper holes for using screws and my frontside fan is larger than the heatsink itself so it was they only way to aviod those fans taking off ...

Anyway, here come those pics:





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for the backside I used a small piece of metal to create a little gap between the fan and the PCB.


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Cheers,
Maggi

Thanx to Ant for reviving my account !!!

[Maggi]

Btw, excellent work, Iskandhar !!!

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Cole

I could easily reach 150/200 with those fans. Unfortunately, any higher and I'll get white lines across my screen.....

CyberNavy
The second smaller fan came with a kind of double-sided thermal tape and my OEM G400 back was quite smooth, without any circuits bulging out, so attaching the fan was no big problem. Not for the DH G400 though!

Maggi
I don't remember the front-side fan being that BIG!!!!. Must be ripped off a really unfortunate casing!!!

Cheers.....

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PIII 500MHz@560MHz
Gigabyte BX2000+ w/UDMA66
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer 6X SCSI 32X
Yamaha 4260 SCSI CD-Rewritable Drive
2 X IBM 9.1 HDD UMDA66
Vanilla G400 32MB Dual Head@MAX Settings
CL Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
ACS45.1 Speakers
Twin 17" LG Flatron (Primary & Secondary)

[Maggi]

LOL

... and bigger ...

[Cole]

Thanks Maggi and Iskandhar, that was a great help. May I ask what size fans you guys used?

[Iskandhar Shahril]

Glad I could be of help!

Size? Let me go back home and check, then I'll post here again.....at work right now. BTW, checked out your site...cool man!!!!

CHEERS....

Hey Maggi
How far can you clock yours with that gigantic fan?? Care to share your MGA Tweak config?

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PIII 500MHz@560MHz
Gigabyte BX2000+ w/UDMA66
128MB PC100 SDRAM
Pioneer SCSI 32X CD-ROM
Yamaha 4260 SCSI CD-Rewritable Drive
2 X IBM 9.1 HDD UMDA66
Vanilla G400 32MB Dual Head@MAX Settings
CL Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
ACS45.1 Speakers
Twin 17" LG Flatron (Primary & Secondary)


[This message has been edited by Iskandhar Shahril (edited 17 January 2000).]

[Cole]

cool, project G400MAX is in the works...

glad to hear you liked the site. i've done a couple Matrox reviews, that you may have seen on Ant's news page. i actually bought the G400s because of persuasion from Kruzin in another forum. now i'm glad i listened to him.

[Maggi]

... any time again, Cole ...

and Iskandhar ...

I'm at MAX levels and can't go a lot higher, but remember I have one of the early boards which won't go as high as the latest batches ...

And I don't use MGA tweak, I made my changes permanent ...

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Cheers,
Maggi

Despite my nickname causing confusion, I am not female ...

[Cole]

Maggi,

what size fans do you have on there?