🚀 go-pugleaf

John Kennedy wrote:
> 
> Mark Andrew Spence wrote:
> >
> > On 4 Sep 1996, David Curcie wrote:
> > > Any comments or similar experiences with Cyrix chips?
> > I've got a 6x86 P-120+ on a Shuttle HOT-541 mainboard I fired up three
> > months ago. It stays on 7-24. No problems thus far.
> 
> I think the above reply indicates the basic falseness in the aleegations
> of Cx86 overheating.
> I too have a 6x86 120 but mounted on an ExpertBoard 8551 PCI Motherboard
> with Triton chipset. I've had it for 3 months and it is normally left
> on 7x24. In that time I have experienced absolutely no problems with the
> CPU or indeed any other part of the computer.
> One must assume from this thread that the 6x86 runs hotter than an
> equivilent Intel CPU. However "hotter" is not the same as "overheats"
> and hence it is true to say that the 6x86 will NOT overheat if installed
> in a board/chasis/case designed to run it!
> John K

I have one of these too and I'm greatly happy with it.

My local hardware supplier told me that it is possible to install the heatsink fan
upside down in some cases. This means that the greatest possible surface area connnextion
between the cpu and cpu fan heatsink is not achieved. Also you must use heat bonding gel to
ensure the best rate of energy transfer from the cpu to the fan/heatsink.

Also, have you enabled the cpu sleep-while-not-busy option in the bios setup?

-- 
/*-----------------------------------------------------------------
/* Rod Cheshire Senior Software Engineer
/* rodc@hq.adied.oz.au ADI Ltd Systems Group, Silverwater Australia
/* Eat, Play, Drink, Smoke and Talk Dirty.