On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:23, Michael S. Keller wrote: > > Do any of you have experience with this brand? Any pros or cons? Is it > > passively cooled, or does it have its own fan? > > > > I am assembling my first Myth box. At the moment my plan is to park a > > desktop PC in an existing closet behind the media center, so noise is not > > a big factor right now. But reliability is, so the fewer fans the better. > > And someday I might want to build a separate frontend. . . . > > My MadDog FX5200 has a fan. It's pretty quiet compared with the CPU and > power supply fans. > > I bought mine on a rebate from CompUSA. MadDog took far longer than the > promised time to pay on the rebate, so I advise against buying a MadDog > card if a rebate is required to get the advertised price.
NewEgg has a fanless, low-profile FX 5200 for $44 right now, no rebates needed. -- Jarod Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Got a question? Read this first... http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html MythTV, Fedora Core & ATrpms documentation: http://wilsonet.com/mythtv/ MythTV Searchable Mailing List Archive http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/
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