[CUBE] Giga upgrade - Its all good...

[John Murray]

All:

I did the Giga upgrade about 1 week after it was
released. Stable out of the box. I ran at 900 Mhz for
two weeks and upped the ante to 1Ghz a week ago. No
problems from the first time I hit the switch. 

I did use thermal paste. I do not use a fan and the
air coming out feels quite cool . The warmest was when
I ran the "filevault" conversion in Panther which
worked the hard disk for 45 minutes or so. No wake
from sleep problems. Only criticism is total lack of
documentation regarding installation.

Day-to-day user experience is excellent. Can use FCP
on the cube(finally) now.

Giga gets my vote...

John

450 -> 1G giga CPU upgrade
1 Gig RAM
120 WD HD
No Fan





--- Anthony Kulesa <tmandesign at mac.com> wrote:
> Well, after a lot of voltage adjustments, it appears
> my Giga upgrade is 
> now stable at 1.2 GHz. According to Giga customer
> support (which is 
> excellent, by the way), every Cube is slightly
> different, thus the need 
> to sometimes fine tune the voltage. I am running at
> 1.55 volts; it 
> would probably be fine without a fan, but I intend
> to add a slow-moving 
> fan to be on the safe side. In the meantime, I have
> placed an external 
> fan under the Cube and the air blowing out the top
> feels less warm than 
> a stock Cube. Sorry about the non-scientific
> measurement...
> 
> To answer the earlier question, the Giga card comes
> with a large copper 
> heat sink (aka thermal transfer plate) that gets
> screwed to the Cube's 
> black finned heat sink. When I pull the core, the
> copper sink and the 
> black sink both feel only slightly warm to the
> touch.
> 
> All in all, I am satisified. No wake from sleep
> problems, and MUCH 
> faster than 450 MHz. And if it turns out that the
> fan bugs me, I can 
> definitely go back to 1 GHz or 1.1 GHz and run
> without a fan.
> 
> 
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