PulsarII won't fit !

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Spirit
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PulsarII won't fit !

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So I bought my new quadcore with 4Gb RAM, all quiet components with a fanless graphics card, all on an Asus P5Ke wireless board. It has three PCI slots so I thought I'd be safe.

But no.

One slot is crowded out by the graphics card heatsink; the middle slot has a copper heatsink (on the mobo) in the way; the third slot is too narrow on the edge - I almost sliced away some little wires trying to get the Pulsar in there :-(

So that's it for the PulsarII. I've put it in my #2 machine, but realistically it won't see much use. But it's made it's way through *six* PCs in eight years, so I suppose it's had a good run.
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Re: PulsarII won't fit !

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Maybe you could fix it by getting a desktop box for the PC - one that uses risers for horizontally positioned PCI cards :)
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Re: PulsarII won't fit !

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or use components that work. you can't blame the card is you have a poorly designed motherboard....
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Re: PulsarII won't fit !

Post by MD69 »

Spirit,

You're to much experimented with the platform, to use this as an excuse .... You're trying to justify yourself buying Xcite ;-)


Cheers


PS: I still have some of your preset for PRISMA!
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Re: PulsarII won't fit !

Post by Neutron »

you mean your motherboard doesn't fit. seems the pulsar fit fine in the last few PCs :D
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Re: PulsarII won't fit !

Post by Spirit »

MD69 wrote:Spirit,

You're to much experimented with the platform, to use this as an excuse .... You're trying to justify yourself buying Xcite ;-)


Cheers


PS: I still have some of your preset for PRISMA!
I think the Gods are telling me this too :D :D :D
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