[plug] that Netway Computers board...

Scott Middleton scott at linuxit.com.au
Thu Aug 28 09:44:38 WST 2003


On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:25, Onno Benschop wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:09, Scott Middleton wrote:
> > Heat is always an issue with these though. Cupboards and modern
> > computers don't go too well together. Remember the days  when CPU's were
> > big and heat sinks were not. I remember running the old P133 without a
> > fan on it at all. In-fact one day i crossed the fan wires wrong and i
> > was actually heating up the CPU and it still ran.
> 
> Uhm, AFAIK, unless you're actively adding heat, you're not heating the
> CPU at all. 
> 
I was, the Fan motor was actually heating the CPU.  I let it run all
night before i realised.

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Scott Middleton <scott at linuxit.com.au>
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