Recent content by Mikeyy00

Just to necropost a bit here. My VRM from Artmix is still busted. He's had it since September "waiting for parts". No updates unless I pester him on ebay messaging. More of a warning to those who are thinking of buying from him. If repairs are ever needed, ymmv.

I (personally) found them to be very hot. For the ~$20 for a new old stock fan.. why take the risk?

Make sure everything is seated properly. Any chance a disc is stuck? (Should be able to put a paper clip in the front). Worse case. They’re actually not that bad to replace IMO. (vs. The slot load models). Just fleabay a PC laptop CDRom (or CDRW or even a DVD) IDE drive. Key is IDE. The...

@herd

Hey Herd.. is that something I can pay you for (a 1ghz+ upgrade for the Cube?.. ) Currently waiting on my Artmix VRM to get fixed so I can use a Sonnet 1ghz without letting out the smoke. I have a few spare stock 450 CPU cards that could be used as a donor card.. I could even send you the...

I mean.. if he were to create a list.. would it really be that large? There's only a handful of GPUs that fit the Cube.. 7000, 7200, 8500, 9000/9200. Geforce 2 MX, Geforce 3, 6200. Most are hard to find today. CPU upgrades could be limited to single core models, (outside of custom modules...

I am a bit curious how a hot 9000 potentially BBQ’d the VRM then. Yeah I’m annoyed. Maybe I’m the a-hole here. I’ll pay to get it fixed. Don’t have much choice really unless I want to eat $200+ Anywho. Gauging by the response here. I’m not being reasonable with him. Lesson learned about not...

Hardly. When I buy a VRM that claims to allow these upgrades. I expect it to function for more than 30 minutes. Call me crazy I guess.

How about a warranty on his product?

Bumping. I ordered one. Received. Popped into a Cube with a Radeon 9000 and a sonnet 1ghz. Ran Quake 3 for 30 mins and my Cube shut off. Smelled burning. Great. Unplugged everything. Radeon was hotter than hell.. clearly too hot for a Cube. So swapped to a GeForce 2. Stock VRM boots. So the...

Location?

Correction. It looks like it’s a perfect fit. But it causes the IDE cable and Power to pop out a half inch or so. So the airport bracket no longer fits. Boo.

This Amazon one fits like a glove. Combined with the cheapy sata-ide bridge, its almost a perfect fit and the 3 screw holes are there for the heatsink chunk to screw in properly. Probably because the external sata connector is on the far side vs. the middle like almost every other bracket...

Sorry to necropost, but any chance you have a part number of the newer FET you used?

SpeedTools did the trick. Thanks! (patched Apple driver kept bombing on startup even with other CD Extensions disabled. FWB didn't seem to work either).