OK....I'm back...with some results from PROJECT: Cool TnT2. Success! I was able to clock this guy to a maximum of 170MHz, BUT.....There was absolutely no point in doing that. I was concentrating so much on cooling the core, but I never bothered about the RAM! Video RAM as many of you know is one of the major bottlenecks on graphic cards. So, the RAM stayed at 249MHz, as any more than that will create an extremely colorful desktop for me. Well, here are some results, I even added Q3 results to show the bottleneck that gets worse after each speed increase. I stopped at 155 Core, because any more than that will just lower my FPS. Well, after discovering that the higher core speed was completely useless, I just ripped off that huge heatsink and replaced it with a smaller 50mm x 50mm x 10mm heatsink. 

Temperature:

Stock Creative Heatsink

My HSF

Well, not the best charts in the world but at least it gets the job done! As the core speeds increase faster than the memory speed, you start to notice a little bottleneck stating to appear...155MHz core was possible when that huge HSF was used. 155MHz using the stock heatsink was impossible, as seen above. I managed to run Quake for like <1 minute and the machine hung. Okie...I'm done for now! Wonder what my next project will be.....

-René, October 31st 2000, 3.28PM