On Sunday 08 June 2014 12:09:41 Roy Smith did opine And Gene did reply: > In article <mailman.10878.1402242019.18130.python-l...@python.org>, > > Gene Heskett <ghesk...@wdtv.com> wrote: > > You may want to reconsider that statement after the first fan failure > > in your mini. We've had quite a few Mac's in the tv station, as > > video servers, graphics composers, etc. The airflow for cooling in > > them is controlled by baffles to get the maximum air flow past the > > hot spots, but a fan failure usually cooks the whole thing. And at > > that time, Macs warranty did not cover collateral damage from a fan > > failure. Cooked cpu? Too bad, so sad. > > The CPU (or maybe I'm thinking of the video card?) in the Dell has some > huge heat sink, a bunch of funky ductwork, and a dedicated fan. I > suspect if that fan were to fail, the chip it's cooling would fry > itself pretty quickly too.
Probably. I have lost several nvidia video cards over the years from fan failures. My phenom in this box has a 75C shutdown that has not been tested. Best fan & sink assembly I could buy at the time. And I have gotten into the habit of replacing the 45 cent fans on the video card with bigger, ball bearing fans at the first hint of a squall. A lot of this stuff has more engineering time in assuring it will die 2 weeks out of warranty, than in giving top performance. And that goes double for stuff wearing an Antec label. I'm on the 4th psu in this box, its a $12.65 in 10 packs 350 watter, Chinese of course, running 4 terrabyte drives and a USB tree that looks like a weeping willow plus the original 2.1Mhz Phenom. 165 watts IIRC. I run gkrellm and watch its voltages. Now about 3 years old, the 5 volt line is still 5.08 volts. Whats not to like? The 2 Antecs I was dumb enough to try, had 5 volt lines down to 4.75 volts and doing random resets at the end of the 1 year warranty. Thats not an excusable failure in my book. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list