hi ya jacob On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> Just an aside. I realize the VIA chip's virtue is in it's power > consumption thus low heat but if you're into the high-heat chips for > some fpu intensive work like the 1.2Ghz listed above, have you seen > Shuttle's I.C.E. (heatpipe) cooling? > > http://us.shuttle.com/specs_access.asp?pro_id=269 > > I have a Shuttle XPC with an Athlon 1800+. It is is cooled by their > heatpipe system. A big block sits ontop of the CPU with some metal tubes > going up to a mini-radiator assembly with a variable speed fan. we have 13 shuttle's w/ P4-2.8 ... and those puppies are super hot - the case itself is hot too where the exhaust is supposedly comeing out leave the cover off the shuttle and the cpu exhaust and case is nice cool -- ie ... air can circulate around the cpu and exhaust fans the radiator is a poorly designed cooling system and due to size, there is no way to add additional fans to cool the cpu and i'm recommending all systems get a seperate 40x40x20mm mounted sideways to cool the 1GB memory chips ( runs too too hot ) - random machines crashing ... at random points .. and if there's a choice... to avoid buying any shuttles w/ 2.8 or faster until that cooling is solved without use tweeking the cooling methodology while the other 12-30 shuttles w/ p4-2.4 works fine .. and no hot cpu exhaust air out its back - the bigger the metal ... the hotter it will become and the harder it will be for the itty-bitty fan to cool the block of metal and since it has no fins ... other than silly 0.1" dia heat pipes, there is very little thermal conduction/thermal conductivity -- a simple finned block on the cpu with the heatpipes would work an order of magnitude better .. -- wish i had a big gian lathe/mill to cut that block of heatsink apart but than again its not my PCs :-) c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]