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The Joys Of Losing Your Cooling Device

Posted by Hemos on from the burn-baby-burn dept.

nitecreep wrote to us about Tom's latest article: What happens to procs when the heatsinks fall off?. Having just had my brand new fan stop working on my computer, I can sympathize. I've found that it takes my 1.2 Ghz Athlon to reach 80 degrees Celsius in about 6 minutes, from time of starting machine. The results of running without a heatsink at all are....interesting.

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  1. Re:He he he by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 4, Informative

    > When are they going to come up with a heat
    > sinking device that runs like the engine block
    > on a car (I.E. the water/freon/liquid
    > nitrogen/liquid helium/butane actually flows in
    > channels built for it within a heatsink block)

    Talk to yer granddad or someone your granddad's
    age if your granddad didn't work with computers
    about the IBM 360, or just about any other main-
    frame of that era. From the 50's to the 80's
    just about *all* the big iron was cooled in just
    that manner. Mostly water--I can still remmeber
    having to monitor the chilled water flow through
    an IBM 3033--although I believe that the Crays
    used some funky proprietary coolant (it was
    pink!).

    Chris Mattern