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rattran

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Reply #70 on: February 01, 2008, 10:00:30 AM

The default nvidia cooling solution for the 780i used on the evga and xfx boards sucks. 1 rigid heatsink/heatpipe to cover everything from mosfets to mcp, poorly fitted with cushioning boxes. I still can't get mine to fit right, and there's a pile of threads on the evga boards on it.

mcp at 100+ degrees out of the box is horrible, I've got mine down to 67, which is still bad. I'd pull it all apart again and file down the standoffs, but I leave for a month in a matter of days, and I'm too angry right now. Plus, the stock fan is designed to blow all the mcp heat directly to the back of your pci-e graphics card. swamp poop

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Reply #71 on: February 02, 2008, 08:25:42 PM

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mosfets to mcp

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Reply #72 on: February 04, 2008, 10:19:14 AM

I think MCP is Media Communications Processor and, about 100% positive, a MOSFET is a Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor-Field-Effect-Transistor.

The MCP is just another one of the chips on the board, the MOSFETs he's referring to are probably the power MOSFETs (though, uh, there are lots more...) and what he is saying is that he doesn't like the stock cooling implementation.

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