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By Kai Ping
04/08/99
Hardware One
Introduction
I
first heard about TennMax United (www.tennmax.com)
through the Stealth V2 Cooler – their cooling solution for the
3dfx Voodoo2 cards. The Stealth V2 Cooler is an active heatsink with
a fan embedded into a triangle metal plate (shaped like the profile
of the Stealth Fighter) which enabled all three 3dfx chips on the
Voodoo2 card to be cooled simultaneously.
While
my own Voodoo2 SLI setup struggled to keep 90 MHz, reviews had the
Stealth V2 Cooler pushing the Voodoo2 to 110MHz. (Mine were stuck at
90MHz as one of the cards had 28ns memory, and no amount of cooling
would have helped.)
Having
recently replaced my aging Voodoo2 SLI with a Creative Labs TNT2
Ultra as my primary gaming 3D accelerator, I was curious to find out
whether the TennMax cooler for the TNT2 – the TNT Detonator Cooler
would improve the overclocking ability of my TNT2 Ultra.
How
To Get One?
The TNT Detonator Cooler comes in three flavours (extracted from the
TennMax website):
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Detonator
Type 0
– Cooler attached using an adhesive tape.
(For
the Diamond Viper 770, Canopus, Leadtek Winfast, Creative model
#687x)
Detonator
Type A – Push pins at the diagonal corners of the cooler.
(For
the Asus 3800, Skywell)
Detonator
Type B
– Push pins on the sides of the cooler.
(For
the Hercules Dynamite, Elsa Erazor, Guillemot Xentor, Gigabyte
GS-660, Creative model #681x)
The
cooler being reviewed here is a type B.
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While
TennMax is represented in Singapore, their Singapore office does not
do retail sales. The polite guy at the Singapore office suggested
that I ordered online from the Tennmax website.
The confirmation of
the order came within a day of making the order (via email), and I
received the cooler protected by bubble wrap in a box (inside two
Jiffy envelopes), via airmail. A one-page installation instruction
was included.
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