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It wont kill any pci slots, unless you got a messed up board because he was
talking about cpu cooling.
Any one who puts a golden orb on a video card is nuts.

Garrett.


Rich Lockyer <rlockyer@linkline.DONTSPAMME.com> wrote in message
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> On Mon, 24 Jul 2000 15:09:46 GMT, "peet_dk" <peet_dk@nospam.dk> wrote:
>
> >it's K7 a have. But I thinking just buy http://www.tennmax.com/ Lasagna
BGA
> >Cooler, but it's only in US (okay they can send it but.....) Then I'm
> >thinking about a golden orb, do some of you have some good advise about
> >setting it on, if this going to be on the card? (its very big I think)
>
> The Gorb will kill two or three PCI slots.  I read one place where
> someone carefully trimmed the top of the Gorb down and reinstalled the
> fan, I think they got it down to only killing one PCI slot...
> definitely better than other solutions.
> Yes, even trimmed, the Gorb will cool better than the Tennmax BGA
> cooler.
>
> For mounting, the BEST (and most expensive) way to do it is to use
> thermal epoxy.  Second best way it to CAREFULLY apply a thin layer of
> thermal compound to the center of the GPU, then use four SMALL spots
> of superglue on the corners of the GPU... I wouldn't trust it, but it
> has been reported to work well.
> The other way is to put a piece of square copper tube (or "c" channel)
> across the top of the Gorb and mount it with tie-wraps through the
> original mounting holes in the card.
>
>