good point, generally you should feel the chips, add a heatsink and/or
fan on any that are particularly hot. a good rule of thumb is if it's
too hot to touch comfortably it's too hot, at least too hot to work
reliably and last a long time. in any case worry about the warmest ones first.
> > Subject: 9600 overclocking
> > I have a powermac 9600 with an xlr8 g3/400/200 1mb 50mhz bus, 256 mb ram. i
> > overclocked everywhere from 50mhz to 54mhz and it was medium stable. now, i
> > put it at 55mhz (around 440/220)and it is more stable than it ever was, and
> > it still runs around 40-41 degrees C. last night i upped it to 55.6 and had
> > nightmares all night.
> >
> > does anyone know if there are warning signs for a motherboard frying? or
> > will the card start to run really hot, in the 50 degrees range, and then i
> > will know to clock it back? could there be other kinds of damage going on?
> >
>
> Hi,
> did you try putting a fan over the motherboard processor (not the card) ?
>
> Thierry
>
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