[CUBE] Cube: ADC to DVI / ATi Rage to NVidia Geforce2 MX 32Mb swap

[Thubten Kunga]

Absolutely. The Apple OEM ATI Radeon 7500 TwinView is radically cooler 
and needs no fan. The GPU is a much smaller path processor IE Cool. 
That's why it's the preferred TwinView. I am willing to sell the ones I 
have for any reasonable price. Just make me an offer and go TwinView 
without any fans.

Kunga

On Friday, January 3, 2003, at 11:23  PM, Tom Davidson wrote:

> I have a tower Twinview 2MX in my cube with a 80mm base fan and the 
> stock CPU.
> When playing 3D games under OSX 10.2, the heatsink on the 2MX card 
> would get
> to nearly 100C, this means the chip itself was probably over 100C, 
> this is too hot.
> It will reduce the life of the chip by as much as 100X, I put a 
> Tennmax 5V fan-sink
> on the 2MX and it reduced the max temperature to about 80C, still not 
> ideal, but
> much better than 100C. I've removed the modem card and the internal 
> chrome grille
> from the base of the cube to improve airflow, and I still have a 80MM 
> fan too..
>
> The Apple 2MX Twinview cards get very hot in a cube, you should not 
> run them without
> a fan-sink, or a monster heatsink that covers at least 1/2 of the 
> card. I have looked into
> using a Zalman Copper GPU sink, or a Zalman G2 Heatpipe cooler, there 
> are possibilities...
>
> I also just got a new PC Ti4200 card, what do you know, it will fit 
> with only a tiny bit of
> board chipped off at the corner and a relocated DCDC card. I'm looking 
> for a Mac BIOS
> tweak for it now.