> > These cards burn out a lot as the original fans were quite poor and
> > prone to failure leading to the videocards being fried.
> >
> > Stewie
> >
> > >
>
> Absolutely right:- I had a 9800 in my heavily upgraded Sawtooth (SATA
> Card, OWC 1.5gig CPU etc.,) and it ran VERY hot, with the card packing
> up after some 7 or 8 weeks. ATI (or rather, AMD) replaced it eventually,
> but with a 128 MB model, not a 256MB as I returned, but with all the
> hassle of to-ing and fro-ing the card between the UK & Canada, I didn't
> bother to argue with them.
>
> Picked up my current G5 dual 2.0 a few weeks later at a good price -
> which I've done nothing to, other than fit the SATA card, with an eSATA
> backplane, and max the RAM to 4GB.
>
> Ted
>
Sadly not an uncommon story Ted.
I put an Arctic cooler on mine which does a great job but it adds a bit more
noise to an already noisy MDD
Stewie
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