Why is Alice overheating?

[Brian]

@BoingBoss

WTF are you talking about? Such a statement surely show that you do NOT know what you're talking about.

I'm not even going to argue this case cause it's just too stupid... sniff sniff... I belive I smell doomy.

[Brian]

@DoomMaster oh sorry... BoingBoss

If you are in fact stating facts then I would love to see the studdy on that with all the parameters (Need mil.spec. chips, can be trown from the 3rd floor window and have a chance of surviving and must be in the DoomMaster collection) used to conclude this so called "facts".

I've owned one or more A1200's through the last 6years and they've never let me down. I've owned 3 A3000, 3 A2000, 4 A1200, 2 A500, 4 A4000 and 2 A600 in the last 2 years of witch I've kept 1 A4000, 2 A1200 and 1 A600 (se sig.)... I think I should know too. :roll:

[Brian]

Although the newer 060 chips obviously can handle running without any cooling, at least for quite a while, I wouldn't recomend it. After all it's an expencive chip and the cooler chip the longer it lives. I have cooling on all my 060's just to be on the safe side and feel better.

A 486/P1 heatsink and fan combo is a winner but any bigger heatsink kan be modded to fit (the bigger the better)... if you can't fit a fan or want to keep down noice then a big heatsink is enough. Mounting these babys on the CPU can be hard as the cards aren't prepared for it so you need to think outside the box a bit to make it work. Thermal compound will not be strong enough to hold the heatsink/fan on it's own but combined with a rubberband (at least 2 in case one fails) it should be enough. You don't want to do this on a 060 but on 040 chips I've even glued the heatsing to the corners of the chip to keep it in place.