Bill's Workshop -- Unoffical 3Dfx Banshee Troubleshooting and Game Guide

Cooling your Banshee

The Banshee runs incredibly hot. Just try putting you finger on the heatsink for more than a fraction of a second. Yikes! If you have room you could screw a small 486 CPU cooling fan into the heatsink fans. That will work. Or you could replace the heatsink with a TennMax Lasagna fan. The original heatsink is glued pretty tight, but I think it will pop off with a little leverage if you heat up the card first. Do you need to do this? Ehh. I haven't seen any heat-related anomalies, although others definitely have, and the trend with video chips lately, like the TNT, has been to put out phenomenal amounts of heat. Some manufacturers are shipping with fans already. Anything to get the air moving around the card would help.

Heat-related problems have been reported by others consist of visual anomalies, freeze ups or crashes developing after the system has been used for a while or several minutes after a game has been launched. Consistent crashes at the exact same point in a game or application would not be a clear sign of heat-related problems. To verify the problem, remove the computer cover temporarily and improve the circulation of cool air. If the problem is reduced or resolved. Take measures to improve case and Banshee ventilation. Another option is to reduce the graphics clock settings, available in many Banshee display utilities.

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