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Subject: Re: Digital Audio doesn't recognize Sonnet ST / processor temperature
Date:    Dienstag 07 September 2010N
From:    Geke <[email protected]>
To:      "G-Group" <[email protected]>

> >My Dual-450 processors don't use thermal paste. My guess is the
> >Dual-500 doesn't need thermal paste either, so you're lucky.
> 
> Are you sure?

Yes. I have a single 400 MHz G4 with heatsink, and purchased two Dual-450 MHz 
G4s with heatsink and two more without heatsink on eBay. One deal was the 
processor with heatsink, another one was tree Dual-450s with only one heatsink 
for only $10 with shipping, so I got weak :-)

> I think they all need it, or at least they'd be happy to
> have it buttered on, no?

On the heatsinks there is some black foil or something, and this is original 
stuff. It doesn't come off (normally) when you remove the heatsink.
I don't know if this would go so well with thermal paste.

The first Mac I encountered to use thermal paste is my G4 Quicksilver 
(originally single 733 MHz, but now Dual-800 MHz). But I've never seen a 
Digital Audio for real, so I don't know about them. Up to and including the 
Gigabit Ethernet there seems to be no need for thermal paste.

> >But if you really want computing power…
> I think we're getting a little off-topic here…

Yes, sorry about that…

Cheers,
Andreas  aka  Mac User #330250

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