yeah "WooPs "card indeed, and yeah accidential things can happen everywhere, then this card was one of them, you do have a point there TM30  Great think'n lad  8)

too bad it does not function...

damn i should have tested it before removing the cooler... but i removed lots of coolers of 3000... never happend anything bad...

a review of the v3 2000 based a-trend board...7ns can easily clocked at 166mhz....

http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.aspx?i=1023

"The Voodoo3 2000 core on the board is clocked at the default 143MHz core with the 7ns memory clocked at 143MHz as well.  For overclockers, the 7ns SEC SDRAM can be pushed up to the 166MHz clock the Voodoo3 3000 defaults it at, however if you remember the basic rules of the Voodoo3's architecture, the core and memory clock speeds always run at the same frequency.  The next logical question is how far can the core be pushed?  Luckily the core is the same 2000 featured on the retail boards, which generally hit the 166MHz level of the Voodoo3 3000, and as you can expect the 6254M exhibited a similar overclocking capability."