68030 temperature

[motrucker]

I have an AMD 2800+, just slightly overclocked to 2.5 Gh. It has an excellent heat sink/fan setup, but you sure can't touch  it - and that's nothing compared to my new graphics card, an ATI 800XL!
Most of the newest intel chips run so hot they fry unless water cooled!
On the other hand, my '030 A1200 run very cool. With 128Mb of RAM, the CPU is only warm to the touch.
The '040 is the hottest Motorola CPU (at any speed) - I couldn't even run an '040 in my desktop A1200. It was way to hot, and a fan would not fit in there.

[motrucker]

Hyperspeed wrote:

I feel a little uneasy about being able to feel the heat of my '060 through the SIMM, the air, the trapdoor cover, some more air and half an inch of wood.

Can anyone reccomend some sort of silent heatpipe/cooler for A1200 desktops?

I've seen some copper memory module coolers in a local shop but not for 72-pin SIMMs. It'd be interesting just to get some sort of thermometer device in there just to keep an eye on temperatures - particularly with a PPC/BVision combo.

:-D

It's hard to fit any fan on the CPU in the desktop case (may as well say impossible).
There is an interesting article in CPU magazine (pp39 of the March '06 issue) on using thermistors to keep track of just how hot the component is. This way you'll know if it's getting too hot.

PS - any of the RAM heat sinks can be trimmed to fit your RAM.