Shake, rattle, and… overheat…
May 20th, 2006 by Jerry
My TV computer has been quite noisy lately, and I figured out it was due to the fan on my video card missing four fins. That can’t be good for heat dissipation, either. So after I bought a cheap replacement video card fan, I started the replacement. Standing on my desk (the TV computer is on the top shelf), with the video card out of the case, I decided to try running it without a video card. After all, it streams the captured video from the tuner card over the network to my main computer, so why should it need a video card? Turns out, it runs just fine. Much quiter and probably much cooler. The fan kit also included chipset heatsinks, so I stuck one on the toasty southbridge chip. Not sure how much that will help, but it can’t hurt.
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on 19 Jun 2006 at 7:23 am JerryKnight.com » Blog Archive » Zap![...] So after replacing the switch with the hub I’ve had in my miscellaneous junk stash (don’t you have a spare 8-port hub?), I found out that the TV computer was still not coming online. After I checked it out (a long process of installing the previously removed video card and stretching a monitor cable up to it), it looked like the network card was zapped too. Great… [...]