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Geoff Blake <geoff@palaemon.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
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> Adam (adam@zoo.co.uk) wrote:
> : Can anyone please tell me where I can obtain a big heatsink for my
> : Pentium 233MMX processor in the UK?
> :
Try Maplins or RS components its the kind of thing they stock or perversly
try Tandys - you know the american based firm by another name.
> 
> : Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I don't know about large heatsinks, but have you considered using a
Peltier
> device to cool the CPU _below_ ambient temperature.
> 
> The Peltier device is a semiconductor which acts rather like an
electronic
> fridge. It extracts heat from one surface and outputs it on another
surface
> and are used in a variety of applications from infra-red detectors to the
> 12V "cool boxes" that are used in cars and boats.


> 
> There is  limitations to these devices above all the size that can be
used with a processor - and not every one is convinced about them. 
> 
> Alternatively you could fabricate a water cooled heatsink. Now that would
be
> novel, although I believe that certain large super-computers use water
> cooling too.
> 
Try Liquid nitrogen ala Crays maybe  :-)))

> Geoff
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>      Geoff  Blake	   geoff@palaemon.demon.co.uk	     linux 2.0.29
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>       Intel create faster processors - Microsoft create slower processes
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