NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #18/NN_1992_18.iso/spool/sci/electron/14676

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From: [e-mail] (Dewey Coffman)
Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Subject: RE: How hot can the 486-50 cpu run ?
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Date: 18 Aug 92 15:14:36 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] writes:
|I heard that the 486 could get up to 400 deg Celcius if the appropriate program
|>was run (one designed to turn on as many transistors as possible)  I am
|>skeptical about the number 400 but needless to say it does run hot.  Many VARs
|>andOEMs have had problems designing clones simply because of the heat problem.
|>And the 586 is supposed to run even hotter!!  Isn't that awful?

    That very well may be true. I did some testing on my
    486-33 vs a 386-20 temperatures. The 486 temperature inside
    the case was 30-40 degrees warmer than the outside(ambient)
    temperature. The 386-20 was only 20 degrees warmer. I never
    had any problems with the motherboard or chip, but the
    other components(disk controller, hard drives) started acting
    flaky until I installed a $99 FanCard inside, no, no more problems.
--
Dewey Coffman                ibmpa![e-mail]
Consulting @ IBM            Bldg 007, Div 44, Loc 966, Dept 06T
11400 Burnet Rd                Zip 1514, Room 1D-052
Austin, TX 78758-3493            [phone]
In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (John F. Haugh II) writes: "I'm probably a fool "