[CUBE] Apple replacement GF2-card with SMALL heatsink!

[Gary Tuck]

I had a 500mhz Cube with the GF2 card delivered just 6 weeks before the 
end.  The card had a large aluminum colored heat sink.  Two months ago 
the card went out and it was replaced under AppleCare with a GF2 with a 
smaller black colored heatsink.  I was assured that it was the latest 
version.  No problems so far.


On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 02:06 PM, Steffen Barabasch wrote:

> 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)
>
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