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| About this blog: Computers hate me. They really do. Every time I try to do something unusual like add new hardware, something is guaranteed to go wrong. I decided to start writing about my constant problems so that someone else might benefit from my experiences - or at least laugh at them! |
  
Above are 3 Asus branded PCI express video cards. Cheapies, because I only use them for VGA text on my servers.
The first cost $29 and I soon realised the small fan was quite noisy.
After a few months, I replaced it with the second, which cost $25. Look at that massive heatsink!
The third was purchased a couple of weeks later, supposedly the same model, but its design is obviously vastly different.
So, is the large heatsink the result of conservative overengineering, or is it to compensate for inefficient chips under it?? Or... is the subsequently smaller heatsink the result of aluminium costing too much? ;)
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