Written: 12/11/99
Written by:
John "Moto"
Chow®
Price: $30
VCCK supplied by:
Mellenger.com
For some people (like me), fast is never fast enough. We always want to push our equipment to the limit and beyond. Another person who likes to make computers go faster is Andrew Mellenger of Mellenger.com. Andrew over at Mellegner was not satisfied with the speed from his brand new GeForce 256 so he made his own overclocking kit for it. The kit worked out so well, he decided to market the product, hence this review of the Mellenger Video Card Cooling Kit.
The kit comes with the following components:
The thing that makes this kit unique is the use of little heatsinks to cool the video card RAM. Most video card overclocking kits (like the TenMax coolers) only keep the video card chip cool. They do nothing for the RAM. The eight pieces of RAM heatsink was enough to cool all 32 megs of video RAM on the GeForce 256.
You will lose a PCI slot with this kit so make sure you still have enough slots left for all your devices before ordering. You should really have the 2 PCI slots below the AGP slot free to give the fan on the heatsink some breathing room. The fan is your standard 12 volts unit with a pass though power connector. No CFM rating was provided.