Guys take a look at this qbus cpu board on Ebay :-)

From: Chad Fernandez <fernande_at_internet1.net>
Date: Fri Apr 19 23:16:48 2002

Since it's been so hot I had to pop the top off of my PC. The top of
the case was getting hot!! It's an AMD K6-2 stuffed with cards, all in
a desktop PC case built in 96, so it would have been designed for high
power 486's or low end pentiums. I found the heatsink on my STB
Velocity 4400 was too hot to touch, even with the top off, all day.
Temporarily, I've got a fan sitting on top of the cards and the power
supply. It's cooled off a lot!! I need to poke a hole in the case an
permanently install that fan. A guy at work mentioned I may be over
loading my power supply, too. I had never thought of that. I think
mine is only a 230 watter. I think I may be replacing it with a higher
wattage unit to be on the safe side.

Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA

Doc wrote:
> Speaking as a generally unwilling but frequent Fixer-of-Busted-PCs,
> I'd highly recommend spending a few bucks on a 300W-400W PSU. A lot of
> the better PC power supplies are rated 10-15% below their real max, so
> I'm not surprised that yours is working, for now. I'd bet that's
> part of the thermal problem, though - an overworked power supply throws
> a lot of heat. I'd also bet large odds the PSU doesn't last very long.
> "Commodity Hardware" isn't an idle epithet. Fortunately, the concept
> includes cheap fixing.
>
> Doc
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Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 23:16:48 BST