Ian,et all BP-6 owners;
Here's a great performance enhancer for the bx chipset for your BP-6 Dual
CPU setup. Glue a cooling fan on it! A few nights ago I got a little
pentium-1 cooler (I think radioshack sells them) and glued it to my heatsink
with a drop of superglue in the center. It only dropped the temperature
reading from my thermistor by 1 degree but now my system runs rock solid at
temperatures over 82F. I ran 2xseti, netscape, realvideo, and had a lot of
info going through the IPmasq firewall so usage was was a constant 99% on
both CPUs for 48hours (and still going) without a video or system lockup.
The system never locked up even when I got the ambient temperature up to 90F
(via a little room heater). There might be better ways to attatch the fan
besides superglue, but hey, it works, is fast, cheap, and I had it in my
toolkit.
I previously cut a hole in the side of my case with a drill press
and installed an 80mm fan blowing right on the CPUs and BX chip. That still
didn't make the video 100% stable. It seems that the little fan on the BX
chip really did the trick. I'm appending my article "Building an 1100MHz
Linux Superstation" with info on the BX heatsink/fan.
I'd say that Abit really needs to add a better heatink and a fan to
the BX chip. I know that Tennemax makes a cooler for it but it seems that a
little thermal paste on the chipset plus a small fan will increase the
cooling enough to get the video reliable.
-David Green
Research Engineer
SRI International
(732) 427-6435
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Sent: Saturday, October 02, 1999 7:15 PM
To: Chris Chiapusio
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Subject: Re: Diagram of case setup
> You should reverse one of these fans to produce cross-case airflow.
> It will be substantially cooler if you pull cool air INTO the case from
> the front, and suck air OUT the back.
[nod nod nod]
After reading your suggestion I realized it would probably make more
sense. So I flipped the front fan around and its pulling air in now. So
far I don't see much difference but time will tell.
--Ian Ehrenwald
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