Why Should I Keep The X-FI XtremeMusic With The Heatsi

That's my question, now if there has been any bug fixes or changes for the better, then I will keep it. I have a nForce4 board running SLI, and from what I read in the past these cards had issues with the nForce4 chi
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But from what I also read that Creative said somewhere in a letter, the only reason for this revision, was to keep up with the demand of these cards, to meet that market need, supply, nothing else.
In doing so, this process created a chip that was hotter and needed a heatsink, so from what I see here there is no performance increase to justify this, it is just a lack of quality.
Because anyone that has been in this industry knows, if you aren't improving quality and performance, then because of the increase in heat, due to this performance, and the need for the heatsink, like in the case of a video card, well if there is no measurable performance gain as in this case, then you are simply going backwards in quality and technology.
I for one will be returning this card, unless the community can tell me 00% for certainty, that changes where made for the better, and it's not just a revision for increasing volume, which I believe it is.
ALOHA
P.S. Why all this? Well I can't use my floppy now, no space with the last PCI slot, which is the only one I can use, YES POOR MOTHERBOARD DEISGN TOO. The heatsink gets in the way of the floppy cable.
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And now to much more added heat, which I don't need in a tight space already.Message Edited by DasFox on 04-6-2006 :34 AMMessage Edited by DasFox on 04-6-2006 :35 AM

Well it is available on the older cards too, but then you would have to buy one old card, and then RMA it back to CL(+shipping), then CL would flash the bios on youre card, and after some weeks you would get the card back flashed. But if youre card works good now, you wont see any improvement in performance between the one you got now, and an old one. Buy a smaller rounded cable for the disk device. You are worrying too much about the heatsink, but if you want, you and me could trade cards. I want the one with the heatsink...

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