[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But I feel better knowing that if my fan dies or my socket cracks, my CPU is likely to survive the ordeal.
Which is why Alphas tend to have their heat sinks bolted on to the chip... Years ago, Intel laughed at us and our clunky heat sinks. Then, they created the 60 and 66MHz Pentium and noticed that we were running our CPUs at 2.2V, not 5V. Monkey see, monkey do... Years later, they were finally starting to catch up to our clock speeds and performance levels, and thereby started running into the same cooling problems that we had encountered and solved years earlier. Of course, because it was _Intel_, it was OK to have a large heatsink and fan on a CPU... It's all moot now, of course... Bayard (who's typing this on an XP1000 with a 667MHz EV6 running Tru64, and, yes, the heatsink is firmly bolted on :-) ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
