On Fri, 28 Nov 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A fried cpu is not always just dead. I've seen one that made funny things > with > interrupts, and that was hard to diagnose.
This is why I always put heatsink goop on the chip, without it the heatsink/fan doesn't do much. The problems you can get from an overheating processor are varied and can be quite subtle. I'd rather not have some odd problem because someone decided 0.10$ worth of thermal compound was too much trouble. Basically, if the tempurature of your chip is higher than the tempurature of the heat sink you are in trouble. I've seen heat sinks with what appears to be ductape on the bottom (It isn't though) and that doesn't seem to do much of anything. Be sure to realize that some Pentium chips dissapate ~20 watts of power, that's ALOT of heat, the chip can go from room tempurature to untouchably hot in about 20 seconds! If you have a Cyrix chip then be sure to use set6x86 to enable the power saving mode, it will keep the chip cooler than a Pentium if your machine is mostly idle. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
