[mythtv-users] $30 FX5200 at CompUSA

[Michael S. Keller]

> 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.

-Michael