On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 12:02:09AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > tolerances. When was the last time you had a motherboard, or CPU, or > > network card, or a video card die because it was "too old"? This stuff > > isn't exactly perishable. It lasts long beyond its obsolescence in most > > cases. > > About a year ago a venerable GeForce 256 of mine had a D/A failure > causing bad video output. I neglected to recycle it and left it on > the workbench. About six months ago a newer video card had the fan on > it die. I was able to salvage the fan from the first and fix the > second with it. Just two weeks ago another newer video card fan > died. Wish I had a source for those thin pci card fans...
Not a single one of my video cards has a fan on it. :-) -- - mdz