On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Alvin Starr wrote: > George Gambill wrote: > > In the late 1970's a friend (an engineer for Motorola) showed me a study, > > indicating that for each 10 deg C (18 deg F) you increased the temperature > > of an IC, you cut it's life in half. > > > > Does that rule still apply??? Who knows? > > It may still be true but if you take into consideration the obselecence due to >technology change I think the 2 curves > would meet at about 200C
Plus, consider having a fan in a small workstation. Sucking in dust all day long. After a year, it is clogged with dust, and there is NO air circulation. Then, what happens to the lifespan ? That's why I prefer a small workstation with a 533 via or a MediaGx chip that doesn't require a fan, and an external power supply that also doesn't have a fan. That's how you get silent, and long life. So sayeth me, anyway :) Jim McQuillan [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > :) > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > From: Stuart Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Organization: ICLEI > > To: LTSP Discussion list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2003 14:04:02 -0500 > > Subject: [Ltsp-discuss] Silent workstation > > > > The AT power supply in my workstation kept getting noisier and noisier so > > this morning I got fed up and replaced the fan. While I was at it, I hooked > > it up at 6 volts instead of 12. I figure that my diskless workstation is not > > > > drawing much power so why do I need such a powerful fan? That made it very > > quiet, so quiet I could hear the CPU fan. Figuring what the hell, I took off > > > > the CPU fan, put on a huge heatsink and underclocked the CPU (a K63+450 now > > running at 300). I'm not running any local apps. So far the temps look good > > and I have had no problems with my now completely silent setup. > > > > I'm just wondering if this seems like a risky setup to anybody. I never > > leave > > the machine on unattended and so far it's running very cool. I don't care so > > > > much about my workstation crashing, I'll notice if that happens, I'm more > > worried about a potential fire or such. > > > > Thoughts? > > > > Stu > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > > http://www.vasoftware.com > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net > > > > -- ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.openprojects.net
