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- From: ttyytt@mixcom.com (Adam Costello)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: 040 3000T !!
- Keywords: A3000-T-040 A3640
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.072332.555@mixcom.com>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 07:23:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mixcom.1992Aug21.072332.555
- References: <kdarling.714031609@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu> <haley.714204013@unixg.ubc.ca> <34512@cbmvax.commodore.com>
- Organization: Milwaukee Internet Xchange BBS, Milwaukee, WI U.S.A.
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- In article <34512@cbmvax.commodore.com> mks@cbmvax.commodore.com (Michael Sinz) writes:
- >Well, it is somewhat true. To fully work within specs, the heat of the
- >68040 must be taken care of. When the original design was made for the
- >A3000, the space for the CPU area was enough for the 3Watts that a 68040
- >was supposed to burn. It turns out that this number was low and the real
- >power usage is somewhere around 7Watts. Now, to get this to work correctly,
- >(within specs, since we do not do things outside of specs such as run a
- >25MHz part at 28MHz, etc) the head sink had to have certain properties.
- >Maybe future heat sink designs can make this board fit, but currently the
- >heat sink required is a bit too large to fit within the A3000 case work.
-
- So what you're implying is that all the '040 cards currently being offered
- for the A3000 by third parties are violating the specs, right?
-
- Are people using these boards having problems? Or do the problems not
- start until after the warantee expires...
-
- AMC
-