[CUBE] Dual display Cube-compatible card with ADC and DVI

Thubten Kunga Kunga at FutureMedia.org
Tue Feb 4 12:40:18 PST 2003


There is a screw in the top of the rear of the card that insures what 
you suggest might happen never will.

k

On Tuesday, February 4, 2003, at 12:19  PM, Tom Davidson wrote:

> I think it's more dangerous to run without the fence..
> If the AGP card gets pulled out of it's slot in the slightest,  and 
> two of the
> traces on the connector bridge, you are looking at a 3.3V short 
> circuit which will blow your DCDC card,
> and probably every other thing in the cube.
> If you get lucky, maybe you only blow up the video card and the AGP 
> riser.
>
> If it's too hot, put a fan on it. None of the desktop temperature 
> displays measure
> video card temperature. If you dont have a remote thermocouple for 
> thermistor
> temperature monitor, try running the cube for at least an hour on your 
> most graphic task,
> ie 33D game or movie playback. Then shut the cube down and pull the 
> core, can you touch
> the heatsink of the GPU for at least a few seconds without 3rd degree 
> burns?
> If not, it's too hot and needs a fan., or accept that it may only last 
> weeks - months
>
> How hot is the DCDC card? or the rest of the parts in that area? 
> Anything over 60-70C ( 155F)
> is getting thing too hot for reliable operation.



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