Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 06:22:33 -0800 From: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com> To: Doug Russell <drussell@saturn-tech.com>, "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> Cc: Paul Southworth <pauls@locust.etext.org>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashes with 6x86L-P200+ Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970331062231.00939330@ccsales.com>
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Try doing that, or rather, try finding me a RAID adapter (SCSI) that will fit in that situation. At 12:07 AM 3/31/97 -0700, Doug Russell wrote: > > >On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com wrote: > >> All the Cyrix chips I've seen come with a Cyrix-approved heat sink/fan >> combo. Cyrix got some flak for sending out chips that would fail with >> no-name heat sinks and fans. They are using large heat sinks with >> fans that spin faster than "normal" cheapo fans. They do this so they >> can ship out chips that run hotter at the higher speeds, by >> guaranteeing the provided heat sink/fan will keep the chip from >> burning up. > >The Cyrix heatsinks are terrible. Or at least every one I have seen >has been totally inadequate. I tried them, and gave up. The machines we >sell with Cyrix chips get set up with a big monster heatsink and a fast >fan on top. Totally eliminates any chance of putting a full length card >in a couple of slots, but that isn't normally a problem these days. > >The PC Power and Cooling fans work great on the slower chips (and I use >them on our Pentium systems, well, and when we used to do 486es too..) >but they don't move enough air for the 166/200 chips. > >Later...... <Doug> > >
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