[Wizard] Cooling them down

[Mike Fineberg]

heh, yeah, I bend all my cables around to uncover the heatsink - my serial and parallel cables go around the opposite edge... It still gets rather hot, esp underneath.

I'll often run mine playing mp3s all night (at about 45%-55% CPU usage), and in the morning it will be HOT to the touch. I don't want to add any active cooling, so I'm going to add bigger heatsinks and touch them to the case, see how well that helps conduct heat away...

- Michael

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On 29/11/2003 at 5:35 PM Bernard Blackham wrote:

>I burnt myself today on a stack of three wizards all switched on :(
>
>What I've found though, is by passing the IDE ribbon cable over the
>top of the USB connector instead of flat over the CPU heatsink, it
>gives the heatsink room to breathe and they don't get quite so
>burnable. This involves unscrewing the USB connector, pushing the
>IDE ribbon cable into the edge of the case and pushing the USB
>connector back into place underneath it...  They're running *much*
>cooler now! (Well cool enough not to burn me)
>
>AND! Even more exciting... I was playing with 2.4 IPSec (debian's
>2.4 backport) today and to cut a long story short, it sucked, so I
>went to compile 2.6.0-test11 to see if it was less buggy. I came
>across the following unrelated kernel compile option:
>
><*> Cyrix MediaGX/NatSemi Geode Suspend Modulation
>
>"CONFIG_X86_GX_SUSPMOD
>This adds the CPUFreq driver for NatSemi Geode processors which
>suport suspend modulation."
>
>Looks very very promising! I'm about to head out so haven't got a
>chance to play yet, but will probably tomorrow.  I'll keep the list
>posted on if it really does cool it down :)
>
>Bernard.
>
>-- 
> Bernard Blackham <bernard at blackham dot com dot au>
>
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