On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> A fried cpu is not always just dead. I've seen one that made funny things
> with
> interrupts, and that was hard to diagnose.
This is why I always put heatsink goop on the chip, without it the
heatsink/fan doesn't do much. The problems you can g
frank wrote,
> Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> > They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83
> > quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this
> > speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan,
> > I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at
> >
>> >
>> > Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which
>> > goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something
>> > like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not
>> > perfectly flat (on a nano scale).
>> I think it's more
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote:
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:
: Does anyone have any experience with this? In
: the old days, voltage regulators and power transistors
: and such hot-running ICs usually were not just attached
: to their heatsinks bare, but were smeared with
: heatsink/thermal compou
>
> Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which
> goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something
> like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not
> perfectly flat (on a nano scale).
I think it's more a case of sheer l
Most CPU fans I've seen come with a pad of conductive [something] which
goes between the processor and the heatsink. I would think that something
like this would be essential, given that the surfaces are probably not
perfectly flat (on a nano scale).
On Thu, 27 Nov 1997, Frank Sergeant wrote:
>
Rick Hawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> They work wonderfully. I have a k6-166 running at 210/83
> quite happilly. However, it needs some cooling at this
> speed; until i get something more than this cheesy $2 fan,
> I need to keep the side off to compile (but not at
> 166/66).
How is the
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