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- From: sl@wimsey.bc.ca (Stuart Lynne)
- Subject: Re: 486 Heat Sinks
- Organization: Wimsey
- Distribution: bc
- Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1992 23:33:09 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug30.233309.28391@wimsey.bc.ca>
- References: <1992Aug26.021718.4308@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Aug30.225909.23132@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- In article <1992Aug30.225909.23132@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
- >>... [ stuff deleted ] ....
- >>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.
- >>
- >
- >A lot of the DX2 computers (50mhz, 66mhz)(the speed doubler ones) comes
- >with heatsink attached the the chip. There was reliability problems with
- >these chips for the longest of time before they were eventually release.
- >Heat sink to cool it down (somewhat) was one of the ways of helping the
- >situation along with other modifications I think. Check out the other
-
- You can get small fans mounted on a heat sink that mount directly on your
- 486. These blow air directly down onto the heat sink and seem to do a fairly
- good job. Cost is about $30.
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