So.. BF2 is playing real bad on my kickass system;

Pentium4 2.0GHz @ 2.65GHz
512MB OCZ PC3200
GeforceFX 5200 (<-POS)

barely plays. So I thought yeah maybe I can squeeze out a few more FPS, maybe 10, and BF will loose the lag with the resolution at 800x600, every turned to low and off.
I downloaded a program that unlocked the overclocking tab ( "coolbits" ) when you browse to your videocard adapter's tab (display properties).

I clicked the option in there to " determin optimal speeds ". It clocked my RAM 100MHz faster and Core 50MHz faster. I then applied the OC, and after 5min felt my video card's heatsink - ROASTING.. however the system remained stable.

http://ethreet.net/hosted/revz/Bucky/PB240145.JPG

I felt the ram, it had no heat to it even after a 100MHz boost. So looked to my left.. saw the 3 heatsinks just sitting on my desk. They are retail AMD CPU heatsinks. And so I proceeded with getting some rubbing alchole (cleans thermal paste/goop), pliers, tissues, flash light, yanking the video card, grabbing some super glue, and then cleaned the bottom of one of the heatsinks. Pictures pretty much say the rest.

http://ethreet.net/hosted/revz/Bucky/PB240146.JPG
Stock heatsink off.. and there is the nice gpu after a cleaning. The backside of the heatsink was yet to recieve treatment.

I put some nice (expen$ive) Artic Silver 5 on there, for really good heat transfer, but left room around the edges for a super glue rim.

http://ethreet.net/hosted/revz/Bucky/PB240152.JPG
The heatsink is now inplace and glued on quite well! I decided to move the stocker over to the RAM chips, it turned out to work better than any other heatsink laying around anyways. I put some thermal paste on all of the RAM chips, 2 dots of super glue on each side and wallah.

http://ethreet.net/hosted/revz/Bucky/PB240155.JPG
Not too shabby aye?

And lastly, with the fan.
http://ethreet.net/hosted/revz/Bucky/PB240159.JPG

And in the comp:
http://ethreet.net/hosted/revz/Bucky/PB240164.JPG

I was actually quite proud of myself when it worked and posted. I figured if it didnt work I'd just go buy a Geforce 4000 for $40 on the Best Buy thanksgiving special.

I'll post the speed increases when I start to play with em; I wrote this post first. Im also proud to announce the heatsink is yet to fall off and tear the GPU off with it. [I love the way the card is upside down.. you should feel how heavy it is!]

-Bucky

That is AWESOME!!!! I almost spit my coffee out on my screen after seeing it with the heatsink/fan on there.

Thanks for posting that. Great read! Interested in what kind of OC you'll be able to get now with your 50lb video card! :haha:

It's alive, IT'S ALIVE !!!

http://img382.imageshack.us/img382/2141/bride7oo.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Cool. I have a big old socket 478 cooler lying around, maybe it could be made to fit my 6200... I'd only be concerned about the weight of the large heatsink.

Ok, I tried it. Got my old socket 478 cooler on my agp 6200, which is unlocked to a 6600 and oc'ed to 400/575. With just the cooler, it's acutally hotter than the tiny stock fan, but if you put a nice fan so it blows through the fins, it runs very cool. Now I need to figure out how to get a fan attached, it's already huge with the heatsink.
http://img368.imageshack.us/img368/5163/6200cooler8kc.th.jpg (http://img368.imageshack.us/my.php?image=6200cooler8kc.jpg)

Oh, yeah almost forgot, the hs is attached with zip ties, lol. It actually seems to work ok.