Viper 040/40mhz without cooler?!

[carls]

Vesalia (www.vesalia.de) has some images of a Viper 1240 board without any cooling - but I guess it's just to show the 040 CPU off (it IS beautiful, as is the 060).

An 040 without cooling would probably go bust long before the warranty runs out.

[carls]

Sure, they claimed that my Apollo 1240 would fit in a desktop case, too. And it did. But then the keyboard and hard drive didn't fint :-)

[carls]

Huh? Keyboard and harddrive dont fit?
Neither even share the same space as apollo1240.
I use an apollo1240@40mhz as well, inside my a1200 case, along with a harddive.
Cant see how a person would have a problem making them fit, even if they tried.

The Apollo 1240 had the CPU mounted facing upwards into the computer. The heatsink and fan on my card squeezed so tight against the keyboard I couldn't really fit the top lid back on.

Don't remember exactly about the hard drive, though. I was using a 3.5" slimline IDE at the time so that might have had something to do with it. IIRC the HDD power theif wired to the floppy drive risked getting in the way of the fan. Not a standard solution, I admit, so I guess I can't blame the Apollo designers for that one.