Hi there, I just got my Cube back from a local Apple Service Provider (it's still covered by AppleCare), with a new CDRW-drive and a new graphics card. Of course I immediately pulled the core out and found what I somehow expected: A small-heatsink, tower-style GeForce2 instead of the one with the huge heatsink that we all know. It can't be simply a mistake from the service station, like accidentally putting a tower card in there, since the frontplate is totally different between tower and Cube cards. SInce it has the Cube faceplate it has to be a genuine Apple replacement part. So it seems like Apple is endorsing GF2 cards with small heatsinks lately... which makes me wonder: Is it ok to run it with a small heatsink all of a sudden? Was the big heatsink unneccessary or even *bad*? (My card died even though it *had* the big heatsink) Would be great to know for all of you who managed to grab a tower OEM card somewhere. Or did they simply f*** up, like with the apparently misconfigured small-heatsink-Radeon Cube upgrade cards, and *should* there still be a big heatsink? Or do they simply don't have any big heatsink cards left and don't care if it melts my Cube and/or itself? I'll talk to the service guy on Thursday, and if I don't get a good answer to my questions (like how he managed to scratch the metal cover on the CD-drive side of the core. Looks as if he put it on the street and kicked it around a bit before swapping the drive ...) I'll start getting on some people's tits really badly... My file at the Apple customer relations department has a red warning sticker anyway ("Attention, picky as hell"), so I've got nothing to lose ;-) Steffen -- Steffen Barabasch (mailto:TheMirror at westend.com)