RogueTrip2012 wrote:was this one of the new ones being sold?
I bought 2 STB V2's 12MBs off ebay a couple weeks ago that also has a heatsink and fans. I was surprise to find they were really new, even the pins for the pci bus were in new shape. I heard others say you can buy a 12" VGA cable off the bay.
I bought a pair of these a while ago.... they are new old stock I believe.
I didn't bother connecting the fans on mine, because they are quite noisy and the cards don't need active cooling (I'm not gonig to bother overclocking them).
I'm running them in SLI and I had to make my own SLI ribbon cable out of a floppy cable, which isn't as difficult as it sounds.
You can buy 12" VGA cables on ebay to use as passthrough from your 2D card, just remember that you need a cable with female and male connectors. The one I got was male on both ends, but a $5 gender bender from the local computer shop sorted that out.