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Re: Blizzard PPC + BVision in desktop A1200 Case
« on: June 26, 2005, 09:21:41 AM »
You'll requier something beafier than an A500 PSU for that. I used a standatd 200W AT PSU and found I had to supply the motherboard with two powercords (the original and a molex did the trick).

I had the 040 model so I had to do something about the heat. Attached an extre heatsink on top of the PPC one and one on the 040. Then added a fan to the 040. By this point the card wouldn't fit unless A. I cut a hole in the table or B. I reised the machine some with extra long feets. I went with option B. If you own a 060 version then you should be able to do without the fan but I still sugest a double set of extra heatsinks... this should men smaller extensions of the feats. I cut holes in my CPU cover so the heatsinks could protrude out of the case, then I found out with all the extra mass on the CPU card the CPU cover couldn't hold the card in but got puched open so I had to add a peice of "halfsoft" plastic on the opposit side of the CPUslot connector that went over the card to support it.

For the BVision you need heatsinks on the chips and I suggest you add fans to the top cover over the BVision to draw air in and over the heatsinks. You should mask the airholes just to the sides of the fans or else they won't have very much effect.

The motherboard isn't made to support the amount of extra hardware we toss at it these days so more poweris needed... you can try just add extra power in on the floppy powerport but that might not be enough and you'll get better effect adding the extra power to where the BPPC fan powerplug sits... or do both. :)

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Re: Blizzard PPC + BVision in desktop A1200 Case
« Reply #1 on: June 27, 2005, 06:24:21 AM »
I dont know how much the cables support but in my case it wasn't enough so I had to have a second molex connector from the PSU connected to the machine aswell as the original powerplug when I used a 200W PSU.

The A1200 needs Gnd, +12v, -12v, +5v (have a look at this site for more info), no tick/clock signal or powergood or anything. :)