[mythtv-users] $30 FX5200 at CompUSA

Jarod Wilson jarod at wilsonet.com
Tue Mar 8 20:02:06 UTC 2005


On Tuesday 08 March 2005 09:23, Michael S. Keller wrote:
> > Do any of you have experience with this brand? Any pros or cons? Is it
> > passively cooled, or does it have its own fan?
> >
> > I am assembling my first Myth box. At the moment my plan is to park a
> > desktop PC in an existing closet behind the media center, so noise is not
> > a big factor right now. But reliability is, so the fewer fans the better.
> > And someday I might want to build a separate frontend. . . .
>
> My MadDog FX5200 has a fan. It's pretty quiet compared with the CPU and
> power supply fans.
>
> I bought mine on a rebate from CompUSA. MadDog took far longer than the
> promised time to pay on the rebate, so I advise against buying a MadDog
> card if a rebate is required to get the advertised price.

NewEgg has a fanless, low-profile FX 5200 for $44 right now, no rebates 
needed.

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Jarod Wilson
jarod at wilsonet.com

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