I have the same conclusion unfortunately. According to my short experience with this contraption is really negative. Gas turbine like sound aside, I can only manage to make it run in a stable manner by opening up the cover fully. My home is about 28 degrees Celsius, and it generally shot itself down in a couple of hours at most, due to overheating. Even with the cover open, touching the PCU hurts your fingers.
It's definitely a lost case. Could be viable in a place like Alaska or Siberia maybe. 🤣
So what I did is this:
Second hand Intel Core2 Duo E8300 for 35TL
Second hand Asus P5G41T-M M LX for 85TL
New Frisby FC-S6035B 300W Slim Case for 110TL
230TL in total, which is about 85 USD. Considering that I will use HD5450 that I already bought, and RAM (2x2GB DDR3 HyperX 1166), DVD, HDD are coming from my existing stash, I think only loss is 35USD that I paid for GX280.
Only issue now is reactivating my Dell OEM Win7 pro that I already activated yesterday for GX280.
Here is a question: If I take the GX280 HDD (Win7 Pro activated and fully configured/updated) into the new PC, will it give me some unreasonable pain (both in booting into a new hardware environment and in activation)?
GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000