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Which one will be the best option? And what should I get to cool them.

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I'm re organizing my legacy builds and for my oldest one I've got the choice of using a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro or an Nvidia Riva 128ZX. Both have 8MB of vRAM so I'm not concerned about that, however I'm not sure as to which one performs better as Google didn't have the results I was looking for. Which one should I use, keeping in mind that the Stealth is PCI and the Riva is AGP x1? 

As for me second question, I'm having problems with both of the cards getting hot since they have no heatsink, what will be a good passive heatsink and thermal adhesive to use for both of them? (They don't have fan headers or mounting holes BTW).

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I'm re organizing my legacy builds and for my oldest one I've got the choice of using a Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro or an Nvidia Riva 128ZX. Both have 8MB of vRAM so I'm not concerned about that, however I'm not sure as to which one performs better as Google didn't have the results I was looking for. Which one should I use, keeping in mind that the Stealth is PCI and the Riva is AGP x1? 

As for me second question, I'm having problems with both of the cards getting hot since they have no heatsink, what will be a good passive heatsink and thermal adhesive to use for both of them? (They don't have fan headers or mounting holes BTW).

 

The Riva 128 is the better of the two. The Savage chips were never very quick.

 

For cooling, you could try something like one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Enzotech-SLF-1-Northbridge-Southbridge-Low-Profile/dp/B0014T161S/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1427422402&sr=8-16&keywords=chipset+heatsink

Use a thermal adhesive like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Thermal-Conductive-Adhesive-Solidification/dp/B00NKW2EUY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427422507&sr=8-1&keywords=thermal+adhesive+paste

That way you don't even need to use push pins. You can also use a passive heatsink too, doesn't need to have a fan. Any chipset heatsink will be big enough to work. You could nab one off an old motherboard north or south bridge too.

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The Riva 128 is the better of the two. The Savage chips were never very quick.

 

For cooling, you could try something like one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/Enzotech-SLF-1-Northbridge-Southbridge-Low-Profile/dp/B0014T161S/ref=sr_1_16?ie=UTF8&qid=1427422402&sr=8-16&keywords=chipset+heatsink

Use a thermal adhesive like this:

http://www.amazon.com/Silicone-Thermal-Conductive-Adhesive-Solidification/dp/B00NKW2EUY/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1427422507&sr=8-1&keywords=thermal+adhesive+paste

That way you don't even need to use push pins. You can also use a passive heatsink too, doesn't need to have a fan. Any chipset heatsink will be big enough to work. You could nab one off an old motherboard north or south bridge too.

So the chipset heatsink off my dead P5K will do them?

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Yeah, even if Apollo hadn't verified that the Riva was faster I would have suggested it purely based on the fact that the AGP buss was designed for video cards where as PCI is all purpose and relatively slow.

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So the chipset heatsink off my dead P5K will do them?

Yup, that should work just fine.

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