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

From: James B. DiGriz <jbdigriz_at_dragonsweb.org>
Date: Sat Apr 20 17:45:15 2002

Doc wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>
>
>>The trick is to run a good OS, and carefully craft a system to run it using
>>good parts.
>
>
> Absolutely. Plus, IMHO, 2 other major players in PC instability.
> Fully half the constant-crash problems I see on home-built or local-shop
> PCs are due to improper cooling and/or a cheap low-Watt PSU.
> I worked on an E-Machine a couple of weeks ago that was delivered with
> a K6/2 450 CPU and a $10 HS/fan combo, with no thermal paste at all. A
> 7200rpm ATA100 drive, CD-RW, Jazz drive, and 90W PSU. The owner told
> me "It crashes a lot." Duh....
> I run at least a 300W PSU and lots o' fans on anything I want stable.
> It's louder, more expensive, and probably excessive. It gives me warm &
> fuzzies.
>
> Doc
>
>

Beats me why some heat sink mfrs. put that crappy adhesive/gum on the
sweet spot. I recently built a dual Athlon 1600MP+ Thunder K7 server
using an expensive, board-specific 460W supply and Cooler Master
DP5-6I11A's (too tight a fit for anything bigger). As an experiment,
using the hypothesis that that stuff was supposed to be some kind of
heat-sinking silicone, I installed the coolers as they were. Needless to
say, until I scraped that pink junk off and put a layer of heat sink
compound on the dies, the system would crash once ambient air hit 80 F.
or so. Wouldn't even make it through an fsck at boot. The bios hardware
monitor appears way off, (52-3 C processor temp at startup) and I
haven't installed lmsensors, so I don't know exactly how hot the
processors were getting. 93 F today though and it's running fine.

No need to tell me I need A/C :-) These women will want one for the
house then. Unfortunately they won't want to pay for the juice
($100+/mo) :-(

jbdigriz
Received on Sat Apr 20 2002 - 17:45:15 BST