In the late 1970's a friend (an engineer for Motorola) showed me a study, indicating that for each 10 deg C (18 deg F) you increased the temperature of an IC, you cut it's life in half.
Does that rule still apply??? Who knows? -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: ICLEI To: LTSP Discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:04:02 -0500 Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Silent workstation The AT power supply in my workstation kept getting noisier and noisier so this morning I got fed up and replaced the fan. While I was at it, I hooked it up at 6 volts instead of 12. I figure that my diskless workstation is not drawing much power so why do I need such a powerful fan? That made it very quiet, so quiet I could hear the CPU fan. Figuring what the hell, I took off the CPU fan, put on a huge heatsink and underclocked the CPU (a K63+450 now running at 300). I'm not running any local apps. So far the temps look good and I have had no problems with my now completely silent setup. I'm just wondering if this seems like a risky setup to anybody. I never leave the machine on unattended and so far it's running very cool. I don't care so much about my workstation crashing, I'll notice if that happens, I'm more worried about a potential fire or such. Thoughts? Stu ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
