Did anyone notice, that the picture (at least th OSD-portion) becomes unsharp when the card is becoming hotter? This is not just "a bit" - at my DLP i can see the difference easily...
Is this a problem of all FF-cards or only certain ones? (i have still a version 1.3 one)
I also noticed, that other problems seem to happen more often if i close the case of my system, hell - i'am not speaking of really hot parts, one could still touch it after all.
There are visible artifacts on the screen when content is changing dramatically and/or freezes which can only fixed by restarts/reboots, sometimes even having let it cooling down for a few minutes.
It is already the second card (first one the MPEG-decoder has died, it still gives a budget-card equivalent), so whenever it finally burns out i want to buy a good designed FF card next time. Suggestions?
Or, alternatively - are there any easy methods to cool the cards better? What chips beside the tuner would have to be cooled?
My bttv-card sits exactly on top of the saa7146 and has absolutely no problem dealing with that temperature, i blame the hardware manufacturer that it gets so hot in the first part at all (it is not even a LNB connected, it should stay stone cold) :-(