Hi > 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.
Not nice - here's how: Server/Network/other problem .... Workstation sits at bios screen not logging in ... CPU temp soars My 200M K6 underclocked to 100M reached 70C within 5 min. Normal Workstation-running-X temp is < 40C So I put a small resistor inline with 12V on the fans to drop voltage to about 8V. (about 56R) RPM on the fans is +/- 2000 not 3000 Noise is down 90%. Perth just had 2 days over 41C, inside it is 30C and the Server and Workstation worst temps are < 50C. (Actually my server HD is in a caddy. I connected the caddy fan because HD temp was over 50C, but CPU is fine) YMMV James ------------------------------------------------------- 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
