[mythtv-users] Another Nvidia card question

Steven Adeff adeffs.mythtv at gmail.com
Sat Mar 10 22:08:43 UTC 2012


On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 5:06 PM, William Powers <wepprop at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't actually disagree with anything anyone has said - their points
> are all technically sound.  However, I have a half-height GT 200 with
> a lame 40mm fan on it that overheats after about an hour of watching
> 1080i.  It's in a half-height HTPC case that is reasonably well
> ventilated.  I've tried everything I can think of to help the cooling
> on that card but nothing worked, so I had to take it out of the box.
>
> On the other hand, I have both a passively cooled G210 and a passively
> cooled GT520 that both work fine in the same case.  The 520's in there
> now.

not all card's are the same, some have better cooling, via better
heatsink design and such.

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