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Mine died last year, possibly a similar cause. Very annoying as was just over 14 months old.<BR>
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On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 08:02 +1300, Graeme Woollett wrote:
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Robin Gilks wrote:
> I've been looking at the problem the same way I must admit - passive
> cooled 9400GT or 9500GT PCI-E card and a suitable low power motherboard.
> Hopefully with a PCI-E riser to allow a slim case by cocking the video
> card over on its side (I wonder if they cool OK like that).
>
> At least by using seperate backend and frontend I know I won't need extra
> CPU for commercial flagging etc in the frontend and keep all the noisy
> bits out of the lounge!!
>
> I guess I'll have to look at the backend/server replacement first while we
> await the new generation of Atom/nvidia motherboards - the old box is now
> 6 years old and I'm starting to notice things like USB only being 1.1 so
> plodding along at 12mb/s - makes it hard work backing up 800Gb of raid
> disks!!
>
>
My 8400GS just died, overheated, AVOID.
Are any of the 9400GT cards passive and single slot?
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