Hello all, been a while...
I have a 333mhz xlr8 G3 processor with the 1 meg backside cache
settable by the processor, etc. I bought it in 2000. I put it in my
8500 that I used for years- definitely faster than the stock 132 MHz.
Since I received my 9500 and put the 8500 back into stockish
condition and have them running side by side I note serious
differences- the 9500, with the Xlr8, is seriously crash-prone versus
the 8500, with the stock 604 at 132 MHz. The 9500 will crash several
times a day during hard use (ResEditing, working on my TC for Nova,
etc), and even during normal use (web browsing, checking mail, etc)-
these symptoms were also exhibited by the 8500 when it had that
processor installed. The 8500, on the other hand, with the 132 MHz
604 processor, has been up the entire time since it has had that
processor installed- over a month now with no hard crashes, freezes
etc. Netscape has crashed a few times but has not brought down the
computer.
Could this be caused by processor overheating? The Xlr8 will idle at
43-47 degrees Celsius, going up to 51 degrees when the computer is
actually doing something. The backside cache, supposedly able to run
at 222 MHz according to Xlr8, has to be set down to a much lower
setting to prevent additional crashes. When I first got the card I
broke one of the clips that hold the heat sink on, and although it
stays on by the clips and on the processor fine, it has not much of
the grease that is supposed to be in there to help conduct heat away
from the processor. Is this the problem? Is there something that I
can do about this? My old Sonnet G3 used to run between 25-31
degrees Celsius so I really suspect the problem is overheating.
Ideas? Any would be helpful.
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