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Originally posted by RobertH
from what I have read in the SHS forums the 350 does have a small heat problem and has a tendancy that if the chip gets too hot that it will loose sync, you may be able to get some thermal epoxy and a 386/486 cpu fan from radio shack or something similar and use the thermal epoxy to mount the heatsink onto the one chip that gets hot and slap a small cpu fan onto the heatsink that should keep it cool although if the SFF case can keep the whole thing cool it shouldnt have any problems
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Good idea Bob. I should have the 350 here before 4 pm today. So I'll have both the 250 and 350 side by side to compare. I'm also wondering if the extra heat may just be because some added hardware components and power requirments needed to support the decoding and FM radio hardware/chips etc.
I will surely get back here and post my findings. Now where the heck is that Fed-X guy? That doggone pot never boils while I'm watching it. 
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