Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 18:50:29 -0800 (PST) From: Alex <garbanzo@hooked.net> To: Ken Hansen <khansen@njcc.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 keeps crashing . . . please advise. (fwd) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980226184752.16632G-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org> In-Reply-To: <34F5ADDC.1411@njcc.com>
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On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Ken Hansen wrote: > Not so fast there, I built an Alpha system the other week and the CPU > ran DARN hot, I asked the vendor and I casually mentioned that it should > not be a problem because "The cover was off the whole time" - he said I > should never run my system for any length of time with the cover off, > because the air is not flowing, it is stagnant over the CPU. This reminds me (kinda) of the people running a K6 at some horribly fast speed (like 400Mhz). They had some kinda liquid or freon cooling system. I think I saw this from a link on Tom's Hardware.. > I suspect that even though you have a fan next to the CPU, the heat is > not being pulled away from the processor by the PS fan as it would if > the case were closed, you simply have the fan blowing air onto the CPU > and hopefully "pushing" the hot air away. > > I would not point my finger at a heat issue right away, but I would not > dismiss it so quickly either (BTW, after I closed the case the Alpha > system ran fine for 72 hours straight, with the case open it started to > fail after about 8 hours or so... I ran my old 486 for quite a while w/ out the case since one of the cooling fans died. However, I had a nice 10 inch desk fan blowing on it the whole time ;-) Boy could that thing sure roast a few IDE hard drives. - alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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