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    Default What runs cooler???

    Hi Again Guys,

    One more question.

    What runs cooler

    A Sub with private file or a
    Gamma with Private file.


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    Anyone please??

    Hazza

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    whats a private file?

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    Your question doesnt make sense.

    A " sub " is a subscription card issued to you by a provider , ie , Foxtel , Austar , Selectv etc. You cant put files of your own on their cards.

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    What I should of said is maybe a cam
    I am newbie and hoping to find a sellers card and have found out in the forums there are two types, a Gamma card which is rewriteable and a cam card which is not.
    But gamma cards run hot and want to find out if the other does too.

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    I think you have some of your terminology a bit mixed up.

    A Cam is a Conditional Access Module. They come in 2 forms , software cam and hardware cam.

    A software cam is built in to most boxes and they simply have a card slot with the cam being built in to the box.

    A hardware cam is a plugin unit that plugs in to a cam slot on the front of a receiver with cam or " CI " slots. The card then slides in to the cam.

    There is no such thing as a " cam card ". Well , there is I suppose as any card can be inserted in to a cam.

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    Gamma cards are not what you would call rewritable in the sense that you can go and write information to them yourself and expect them to work.

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    the gamma cards people talk of used to be able to load them with 'public files' but they are no more, a sellers card is what you are looking for i think, which people still refer to as being a 'gamma' card even though we don't know if it is actually a gamma card

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    Yes that makes alot of sense.

    I am after a sellers card but was under the impression there was two types and one runs hotter than the other.

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    no there is talk of different batches of cards, some suggest that the latest 'batch' runs cooler than the ones obtainable earlier on. my card used to run cool, but now runs hot i have a strong box. different people are getting different results, some people are making modifications to their decoders to reduce the power to the card reader and therefor make the card run cooler, it is largely experimental and done at your own risk. i know people who have had cards running hot in strong boxes for nearly a year with only occasional failure due to overheating, but removing the card for a few mins and reinserting seems to resolve it. it cant be good for the cards running so hot that the plastic at the back of the chip is changing color, but at the same time i dont know if anyones has died as a result. well, not first hand anyway, a friend of a freinds uncle doesnt count to me.

    hth.

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    get yourself a card first and see if it runs hot or not. If it does, you can always do a voltage mod to your decoder and make it run nice and cool.
    Blown Humax 5400Z, Strong SRT 4658X, Strong 4663X and DM 518.

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