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

Bill Fox wfoxjr at earthlink.net
Sun Jan 5 05:17:08 PST 2003


On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 07:32 PM, phoenix wrote:

>>> Either Apple doesn't see the need to be so cautious now
>>> or they just don't care.
>>
>> Apple is out of the loop. The large heat sink turned out to be
>> unnecessary overkill.
>
>         Overengineering the hell out of certain items and components 
> made
> legends out of Mercedes and Volvo.  Too bad this isn't done much 
> anymore.

I guess reducing "overengineering" is partially how Apple has closed 
the price gap with PCs. Nevertheless, so far no one has reported a 
tower-pulled GF2MX failure and they've been in use in the Cube 
community for a year or so now.

Bill



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