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Robert Orin Charles Kilroy <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 17 Jun 1998 09:16:59 -0400
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Mark Rode wrote:
> I own a Monster I and I burned the first one up playing  the Hyperblade
> game that came with the card. I only installed and played the game long
> enough to see I didn't want it ...about 15 minutes...but that was long
> enough to kill the card.
<snip>
> On the replacement card I have setup a 486 CPU fan to blow directly on the
> chip and a digital indoor outdoor thermometer probe suspended above the
> card to monitor temperature. Running a game will heat things up rather
> quickly by 3 degrees Celsius. I don't know why they don't just put a heat
> sink on there and maybe even a fan.

Boot Magazine ran an article a few months back about a cooling fan for
video cards.  I don't have it handy, but you might want to check their
web site, http://www.bootnet.com

I say you can never have too much cooling.

Robert Kilroy

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