[Cube] Daystar upgrades?

[Fred Terry]

On 2/1/06 5:21 PM, "Riba" <riba at ml1.net> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 2, 2006, at 0:18, Donald Schwab wrote:
> 
>> Never had a lick of trouble with my Gigadesign 1.2 GHz, installed
>> in autumn 2004, and run pretty constantly in fanless configuration
>> since.
>> 
>> The Cube has been running 1.25 GB of RAM, a 32 MB ATI Radeon7000
>> video card, and a WDC 120 GB 7200 rpm 8 MB cache hard drive.
>> 
>> However, urges to run a more powerful video card (ATI Radeon9000
>> Pro with 64 MB) led me to reclothe my cube in OWC's bigger, better
>> ventilated case last month.
>> 
>> The Gigadesin 1.2 GHz has run flawlessly through all of this, and
>> the Cube definitely seems to be running cooler now.
> 
> I also have 1.25 GB of RAM, and Radeon 7500 inside with original 450
> MHz CPU, and only now have I began to feel the lack of power... Is
> the gigadesigns VRM recommended?

I didn't pick one up at the time I installed my upgrade and I've been okay.
I have 1.5Gb of RAM, a Maxtor 120Gb drive, and a Radeon 7500 card in
addition to the Gigadesigns CPU. And I've been running a fan in my Cube
since I began making changes. You should be okay.

pf