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[gamefreakgcb]

Originally posted by: videopho

Originally posted by: mrVW
Anybody tried with Vista RC2? I have mine on order.

I don't think Vista driver comes with it or available for d/l.
The driver that comes with the cd is worthless.

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Need a strong pc to view HDTV with this.
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I used it with my Dell Gen4 which is not the most powerful pc on earth by today's standard but enough to run all of my games and all.'
What do I expect for $54.99 (two months ago price)? Shouldn't be much, so I learned my lesson.

Agreed, this thing gets Scalding HOT and my reception sucks (partly because I live in an apartment complex with lots of buildings around and I dont have a better antenna I guess.)

 

[forcemac101]

Agreed, this thing gets Scalding HOT and my reception sucks (partly because I live in an apartment complex with lots of buildings around and I dont have a better antenna I guess.)

I wonder if this thing has problems with using differnet antennas. I have seen some folk attempting to use the silver sensor or other fancy HDTV antennas with no luck. I am not knowledgable about resistance and impendence but could using a differnet antenna be out of spec with what the cards wants? It sounds like you aren't using a different antenna though....you could aways try though you may report the same issues that i stated above....I use a set of old school UHF/VHF on my set top box for HD in a basement and it works fine, but I havent' tried them with this card as it works pretty good with this antenna that it came with.

On the overheat issue, someone mentioned in another forum that the USB port might be supplying too LITTLE power and that somehow causes the thing to react differently and overheat (again, I know nothing about electricity and driving something with too little of power), but that statement didn't make sense to me, but it would make me try to run it off another USB port to see what happens. It runs warm for me but no hotter than the bottom of my core duo laptop gets around the hard drive area. It does max out the milliamps on my USB port thought at 500ma.

 

[videopho]

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