On Friday, November 8, 2002, at 04:46 PM, Spiritus ex Machina wrote: > OK, Scott (or anybody else with an opinion on the matter), what is your > opinion about cooling for my Q605? It's got a 68040/25 chipped to > 33MHz, > 36MB RAM, 2 4-chip VRAM sticks (1MB? 2MB?), and a PDS Ethernet card. I > use > this system for email and web surfing and leave it on for extended (12+ > hours at a stretch) periods. The memory chips are cool to the touch, > but > the CPU is hot enough to be uncomfortable to leave a finger on. If I > should > add a heatsink, what sort should it be?
I have a couple of 605s overclocked with full 040s, and both changes add quite a bit of heat to the little purple square. Most (perhaps all?) the other Quadras had heatsinks on them, which are the same size as the 040 and have a clip to hold them on - if you feel around the edges of the 040 socket, there are 4 bumps for the clip to latch onto. I did run one for a little while without the heatsink, but just feel paranoid about a CPU nearly hot enough to burn skin =). Best go with Apple's practice, as all the other full 040 33Mhz machines I've seen had them. The webserver I use is one of those 605/33s - and it's been on for around 8 months straight with the heatsink. It stays happy :). dana -- http://www.danamania.com/ -- Quadlist is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Enter To Win A | -- Canon PowerShot Digital Cameras start at $299 | Free iBook! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> Quadlist info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/quadlist.shtml> The FAQ: <http://macfaq.org/> Send list messages to: <mailto:quadlist@;mail.maclaunch.com> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:quadlist-off@;mail.maclaunch.com> For digest mode, email: <mailto:quadlist-digest@;mail.maclaunch.com> Subscription questions: <mailto:listmom@;lowendmac.com> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/quadlist%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
