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Article #43Re: 486 Heat Sinks
From: AU TRI BANG
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:28
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:28
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In article <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes: >Do you *need* a heat sink? The 486, 386 etc are in a big ceramic PGA package >that's designed to dissipate that kind of heat, as long as you have enough >air cooling. If you have problems you think are heat related, maybe something's >blocking the air flow in your computer, like a card. If you use rated clock >speed, cooling etc. you don't need a heat sink. > I'm not having problems of any sort. I just don't like the idea of a chip operating at such a high temparature. Operating it at a lower temp should prolong its life, wouldn't it?
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Newsgroups: bc.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!uunet.ca!xenitec!van-bc!ubc-cs!fs1.ee.ubc.ca!tau From: tau@ee.ubc.ca (AU TRI BANG) Subject: Re: 486 Heat Sinks Message-ID: <1992Aug28.052810.14424@ee.ubc.ca> Organization: University of BC, Electrical Engineering References: <1992Aug26.021718.4308@ee.ubc.ca> <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca> Distribution: bc Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 05:28:10 GMT Lines: 11