A question on attaching stuff securely in A1200 tower

[Karlos]

@TheA1200Guy

Question - Can you explain why here you are advising on the construction of a well built tower and yet had this to say in an earlier thread to another A1200T builder -

Hi Mucker,

It would be better for you to sell your Amiga 1200 Tower and buy yourself an Amiga 4000 or 2500 computer. Do not waste any more money on that A1200 Tower. If you need a really fast and powerful computer then get yourself a Pentium 4 PC. I have all of the Amiga models, including an AmigaOne G4. My Pentium 4 PC, running Windows 98 Second Edition, blows the doors off ALL of my Amiga computers. But, I still love my Amiga computers and actually use them all the time. I like playing the classic video games and watching all the cool demos and animations that were produced for the Amiga. But, if I need speed and power, I do not kid myself, I always use my Pentium 4 PC. It is much faster and out-performs my Amiga 4000 Tower and my AmigaOne G4. Yes, it would be better for you to sell that low-end Amiga model and get yourself one of the high-end Amiga models (like the Amiga 2500, 3000 or 4000). You can buy a really nice Amiga 2500 system on eBay for around $250.00 and an Amiga 4000 system for around $500.00.

[Karlos]

My biggest gripe about the blizppc is that the CPUs sit on the 'outside' of the card - ie towards the side panel.

This means I have no room to fan them directly in my tower, so even my 040 is passively cooled with a (fairly chunky) heatsink. It actually touches the side panel in my case - however, that does tend to give me a rather large passive cooling surface ;-)

I really need to find some more of those really low profile 486 fan heatsink combos...