[vdr] Re: Pundit case and Hauppauge Nexus-s

[Miguel Sanchez <misan@disca.upv.es>]

Feghoul François wrote:

>>Otto J. Makela wrote:
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>>>On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 10:03:44 +0200, Miguel Sanchez wrote:
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>>>>I previously reported my vote for this barebone system [Pundit] from
>>>>Asus to the list. Now, my word of warning: A Nexus-s board will
>>>>collide with the CPU heatsink/fan of such a system. (Ok you mighet
>>>>rip off part of the heatsink to make it if fit, it's only 2 cm, but
>>>>I refused to do this).
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>>>>While I still think it is a nice case and computer, I had to let it
>>>>go back to the shop as I could not fit my DVB card in it.
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>>>>So you can save yourself some time all this messing around if you
>>>>own a Nexus-s and are looking for a nice box to build your VDR box
>>>>with.
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>>>I've found that neither will a Hauppauge DVB-C card fit there.
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>>>However, as you said, the overlap is also only about 2cm and on one
>>>PCI slot it is only the heatsink air director (plastic funnel leading
>>>into the heatsink fan) that gets in the way -- it would be rather easy
>>>to make a small incision into the director for the card. I doubt this
>>>would have serious repercussions for air flow in the case.
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>>Hi Otto,
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>>The  box has two PCI slots, the topmost is the one that, if you use it
>>will make the card to collide with the plastic part/ fan of the
>>heatsink, however due to the height of the card I could not manage to
>>get the card inserted into this slot and the PCI 90 degrees adapter
>>block back into its place. So I only managed to get the card into the
>>bottommost slot (the other) and then the card will bump into the metal
>>fins of the heatsink. If you remove part of them you are reducing its
>>heatsinking capability.
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>>I'll be interested on hearing from people who actually fixed problem
>>(maybe getting a different configuration heatsink/fan?).
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>>Cheers,
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>>Miguel
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>Hi
>I have a Asus Pundit and a Hauppauge DVB-C since April 03 and all work fine.
>(A friend have the same since Jully 03)
>The computer is online 24h/24h and the temperature of the CPU and the
>Motherboard are ok.
>I have remove the CPU headsink to place the DVB-c.
>So the Asus Pundit works very nice for VDR and DVB-c
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>Francois
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Hi Francois,

What did you do with the heatsink? Did you cut it? Or are you running
without a heatsink?

Maybe DVB-C and Nexus-s are different sizes (sorry I don't have the card
or the measures at my office).

Regards,

Miguel




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