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In article <1992Aug30.225909.23132@unixg.ubc.ca> twong@civil.ubc.ca (Thomas Wong) writes:
>In article <1992Aug28.051522.7672@ee.ubc.ca> jmorriso@ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) writes:
>>... [ stuff deleted ] ....
>>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. 
>>
>
>A lot of the DX2 computers (50mhz, 66mhz)(the speed doubler ones) comes
>with heatsink attached the the chip. There was reliability problems with
>these chips for the longest of time before they were eventually release.
>Heat sink to cool it down (somewhat) was one of the ways of helping the
>situation along with other modifications I think. Check out the other

You can get small fans mounted on a heat sink that mount directly on your
486. These blow air directly down onto the heat sink and seem to do a fairly
good job. Cost is about $30.

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