If interactive traffic (such as SSH) is an important part of your work (eg. SysAdmin) then I would seriously consider investigating some sort of traffic shaping so your interactive sessions won't turn to crud when you need to download something.
This is especially true if you don't have exclusive access to the internet connection.
I admin a lab of 8 workstations with Vanta video cards in them. These cards have a serious hardware flaw in them. The heatsink was too small (should really have been a fan) and after about a year, they start to exhibit the following phenomenon.
You get horizontal ghosting of the image. So if you get a window in the middle of the screen, you can see smudges of the window to either side of the image. If you'd not known this, you'd likely think it was the monitor.
Also, I noticed on a spreadsheet that red turns into this amazing flourescent orange!
If you take the card out, and remove the two heatsinks, you can quite clearly see the scorch marks.
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If interactive traffic (such as SSH) is an important part of your work (eg. SysAdmin) then I would seriously consider investigating some sort of traffic shaping so your interactive sessions won't turn to crud when you need to download something. This is especially true if you don't have exclusive access to the internet connection.
I admin a lab of 8 workstations with Vanta video cards in them. These cards have a serious hardware flaw in them. The heatsink was too small (should really have been a fan) and after about a year, they start to exhibit the following phenomenon.
You get horizontal ghosting of the image. So if you get a window in the middle of the screen, you can see smudges of the window to either side of the image.
If you'd not known this, you'd likely think it was the monitor.
Also, I noticed on a spreadsheet that red turns into this amazing flourescent orange!
If you take the card out, and remove the two heatsinks, you can quite clearly see the scorch marks.