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- From: tau@ee.ubc.ca (AU TRI BANG)
- Subject: Re: 486 Heat Sinks
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.052810.14424@ee.ubc.ca>
- Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Aug26.021718.4308@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca>
- Distribution: bc
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:28:10 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
- >Do you *need* a heat sink? The 486, 386 etc are in a big ceramic PGA package
- >that's designed to dissipate that kind of heat, as long as you have enough
- >air cooling. If you have problems you think are heat related, maybe something's
- >blocking the air flow in your computer, like a card. If you use rated clock
- >speed, cooling etc. you don't need a heat sink.
- >
-
- I'm not having problems of any sort. I just don't like the idea of a
- chip operating at such a high temparature. Operating it at a lower
- temp should prolong its life, wouldn't it?
-