Cooling and power.

[sheepz]

I have a towered A1200, it runs a BPPC with a BVision graphics card. The BVisoin is behind my meditor and gets quite hot, Any ideas how i can help cooling? Also i have read of a few people attaching heat sinks and fans to the 040, how do i attach it? superglue  :-?

How do you run power to the mobo floppy connector? My set up is in a power tower (eblox) and my LEDs attach to this.

Thanks for the help.

[doctorq]

Why don't you get a Voodoo board for your Mediator instead? Saves you the trouble of fiddling around with cooling the BVisionPPC.

[sheepz]

I have voodoo5 5500, but could never get it to work so i gave up, could i run both? I it easy to set up on os 3.9?

[doctorq]

I take it you have a Mediator PCI 1200 then. I never succeded in
getting my Voodoo 4 4500 working, but Voodoo Banshee and Voodoo 3 3000
works as it should. As a side note, the Voodoo 4 4500 works fine in my
Mediator PCI 4000.

If you decide to replace the Voodoo 5 5500, go for a Voodoo 3 3000 as
it will enable you to run Warp3D; Voodoo Banshee doesn't.

As I see it, there is no reason to run both. I never tested myself,
but I have been told that Voodoo is faster than BVision. The only game
that has a problem with Mediator/Voodoo is WipeOut 2097; it has some
funny looking graphics during load, but the game looks as it should.

Voodoo is easy to install; as with any other software, just read the
docs.

[lillPiP]

I got the Voodoo 5 5500 to work with the Mediator.
You could try and place the Voodoo in another PCI-slot of the Mediator, sometimes this may help. And you also need P96, which you can find on the OS3.9-CD.

[doctorq]

As I said earlier it depends on what kind of Mediator it is. The newer
ones can accept Voodoo 4 and Voodoo 5 boards, but the oldest of them,
like one of them I'm having, can't My board can't accept Terratec 512i
sound card as well, even though I have updated two of the MACH chips
on the board.

[Brian]

In my A4000 with mediator I use Voodoo3 3000. It's the best in my oppionion. Have a Voodoo3 2000 and Voodoo5 5500 but the 2000 is of cause weaker and the Amiga becomes the bottleneck and can only use 1 GPU so the 5500 power goes to waste... also it's way big, requier extra power and gets hotter. But they are good for backups.

Attaching a heatsing to the 040 isn't that hard. If you can find a dead 3640 board they have holder for heatsing, else use heatcompound and clean of the corners of the CPU and add heat tollerant glue there.

[Framiga]

Attaching a heatsing to the 040 isn't that hard. If you can find a dead 3640 board they have holder for heatsing, else use heatcompound and clean of the corners of the CPU and add heat tollerant glue there.

same here.

Four "less than a drop" of cyanocrylate glue at the 4 corners (plus the heatcompound) , worked for about 10 years, on my old 040 board (PowerChanger).

And works with my OC 060 now too ;-)