no one answered yet? i'm surprised...

i mean i'm pretty sure the fans will get, or are already, noisy. Though i don't want to pop off the heatsinks, i don't plan on overclocking it at all, i don't want to risk ruining such a great card!
I just wish i could change the fans in case they get noisy, so i would need to know which size i would need. I do have a Scythe Mini-Kaze here i would probably plug on the power supply Molex connector, though i only have 1, not 2, so this is why i would need to know the fan size if i'm going to replace it (they're probably only screwed on the heatsink, like most CPU fans of the time. Are they 40mm fans?

This Scythe Mini-Kaze i have here is a good silent small fan, 40x40x10mm, 3500rpm, 14dba, 4.11 cfm, sleeve bearing. Are the AAVID fans 40mm? maybe thicker than 10mm?

i wonder if those fans are controlled by the card, kinda like today, when the card get hotter, it spin faster. or always at 12V speed?

I mean...the fans seem to have 3 wires, so Ground, 5V and 12V i believe.

ah so they're not supposed to be very loud.

i sent a message to the guy and he said they're still fine.

Now i found a slightly faster board with 133Mhz FSB and a P3 866Mhz Socket370 CPU, i used this on an Asus S370 to Socket-1 adapter and it work!

The Board is a MSI, MicroATX form factor, the AGP slot is keyed for older AGP 1x/2x cards, it only have 2 slots for RAM, but i should have more than enough with 2x 256mb PC133. disabled the built-in audio and using a SB Live! value in it.

The case i found come from a Fujitsu Siemens Scaleo computer, it's a pretty standard one, no screwed up parts like in those HP computers.

The case look like this:


I tested the AGP slot with an AGP 1x/2x card such as an ATI Rage 128 GL (only 1 key on it which is the 3.3v one) and it seem to work just fine. I didn't installed the drivers for it though, i just wanted to install everything except the video card driver so it'll be ready when i'll get my V5500 in the mail.

I just need to use a more quality power supply in it, because it's going to have the V5500 inside, so i want better power to go thru it.

i've put in a "Power Man" 300W power supply instead of the cheaper-looking 420W. The Power Man one feel heavier and have more connectors to it, ATX power connector is longer, so it's most probably a real 300W, while the cheaper 420W have a lot less connectors, feel kinda light and the ATX power connector is a bit shorter.

i can't find a 3DFX case badge, it seem to be a real pain to find. It would be nice to have. Though i may, at some point, paint the metal parts (side doors and top) of the case, since there's a spray paint that almost have the same color as the front bezel, sold at the hardware store nearby, it's the Krylon's "Navy" color.

Actually i'm a bit surprised the P3 866 S370 worked on the Socket-1 adapter, since all the Asus boards i have here, the CPU support for those adapters stop at 700Mhz i believe, but i'm glad it does work, and on a MSI board!

i'll be tight on money this month, i'll be buying like 75 old PC games all in their box, most of those games date from 2003 and older i believe, many of them in old style oversized boxes, 80$ for the lot. So...yeah. Though i wish i had 2x P3 1Ghz Slot-1 with 100Mhz FSB though, since i do have an Asus P2B-DS dual Slot-1 board, and supposed to support up to P3 1Ghz CPUs. But the thing is Win98 doesn't detect 2 CPUs