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- From: rohrer@fncrd6.fnal.gov (Keith Rohrer)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: AMD386 vs. Intel386 & external cache problems
- Summary: open case != cooler!!!
- Keywords: AMD 386 Intel cache
- Message-ID: <2181@fnnews.fnal.gov>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 13:59:32 GMT
- References: <1992Aug12.153149.29972@news.th-darmstadt.de> <1992Aug13.130554.14600@crd.ge.com> <1992Aug14.083358.24246@news.th-darmstadt.de>
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- In article <1992Aug14.083358.24246@news.th-darmstadt.de> herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de (Gabor Herr) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug13.130554.14600@crd.ge.com>, davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM (william E Davidsen) writes:
- [deleted]
- >because these two chips were the only ones getting hot. And there was another
- >cooling effect too: after I was tired of removing and installing the boards in my
- I've discovered that, even with a case that has incredibly poor ventilation,
- the hard drive and (if the CPU is a hot one) the CPU will be cooler if you
- close the case and allow the fan to draw air across them than if you just
- leave the case open and let normal air currents try to cool it.
- While I was working on my new 386-40 motherboard, within an hour of
- use with the case open, the chip got so hot it burned my finger to touch
- it. But I could leave the machine on for hours with the cover on,
- and the CPU only got too hot to touch for more than a second or two.
- I think I may have also cooked a hard drive running it with the cover off
- the (main) case.
-
- >case, I just let the machine run open on my desk without the case.
- >But nothing of this helped. The tests failed with or without cooling.
- Then heat wasn't your problem.
-
- >Gabor
- >############################################################################
- >Gabor Herr Email: herr@iti.informatik.th-darmstadt.de
- >Computer Science Department
- >Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany
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- Keith
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