Blizzard PPC advice please

[Karlos]

The 25MHz 040 on my BlizzPPC has onnly an old K6-II aluminium heatsink on it. That brings it into physical contact with the side of the case almost, but I have checked it after several hours use and it simply doesnt get that hot.

[Karlos]

I have a ressurected Apollo 1240 card in my 1200D. I found an old combined 5V fan/heatsink that was almost exactly the same area as the 040 and only 1cm tall in total at a computer fair. It cost me 50p (I wish I's bought a few now).

Anyhoo, its very quiet, gets nice and cool and as the only real downside, is made by intel (/hide). It could be a pentium 1 fan? Not sure.

If you can find such a beast, it would be ideal for your card.

[Karlos]

Does it have some garish holographic sticker on the fan motor with the intel logo? If so its the exact same one.

There y' go folks, finally a use for some ancient 486 PC - steal the cooler for your 040's!

[Karlos]

@amigamad

I put a small dollop in the middle and then spread it out by gently moving the heatsink in a gradually widening spiral motion (eliminates any air pockets)  until as much of the chip was covered and the heatsink was quite tightly attached by the grip of the heat transfer compound itself.

[Karlos]

@CU_AMiGA

The TVP4020 gets pretty damn hot. I installed a heatsink designed for a power amp on mine (same surface area, 1 inch tall vanes). In my case itself I have a spare case cooling fan mounted above the motherboard that blows air across it (close to the gfxcard).

With this arrangement, I can touch the heatsink and it is just gently warm. I was able to overclock the chip too, but the increase in performance wasnt that great so I put it back as it was.

[Karlos]

Yeah, sorry dude thats the part number for Texas Instruments implementation the Permedia2 chip. I spent so bloody long looking at tech info on it I kinda use it interchangably...

Anyhow its the low profile chip with the 3DLabs Permedia2 logo on it.

-edit-

Er, that was kinda stating the obvious there. Sorry man  I been up sice 6am yesteraday!

As for PSU, I have 350W but I dont think the drain is so high. 250 will be fine for you system. If you had a PCI board and cards to feed you may need more than 250, but as for the rest - unlikely.