68030 temperature

[steve30]

How hot should the 68030 processor run?

I had it running in my blizzard 1230 for a few hours yesterday and it burnt me when I touched it. :-o

[Amigaz]

They run quite hot, much hotter than the 68060

My '030 on my Blizzard 1230 also runs quite hot, I've drilled some holed in the trapdoor so there's some extra airflow around the card but I can still feel a hot spot underneath the table from the 68030  :lol:

[steve30]

I can't even have my trapdoor cover on. The memory stcik sticks out and makes the amiga wobble.

I'll have to make some sort of stand for it so it sits flat.

[Amigaz]

Are you using a huge 64 or 128mb simm module?

[steve30]

Yes, it's 128mb.

[Amigaz]

steve30 wrote:
Yes, it's 128mb.

Overkill  :-)

32mb will do fine, IMHO only expanded A1200 needs more than that

[steve30]

It came with 128MB.

And cost less than the 32mb version at amigakit

At least I shouldn't run out of memory. :-D

[Legerdemain]

Oh, so huge SIMMS add to the production of heat? Didn't know that. I ran my B1230 with only 16MB and it never got hot at all. My 060, on the other hand, get so hot that I can burn myself if I touch it...  =)

[steve30]

Don't know.

The actual processor gets very hot (+50 degrees c). The heat on the memory stick seems to have come from the processor

The memory stcik probably stops some of the heat from escaping.

[KThunder]

the heat produced depends on the cpu revision. i dont know where you can get the numbers anymore, but i had a late revision 50mhz 030 that you could put your finger right on. it was hot but it wouldnt burn you.

[JaXanim]

My old 030/50 would heat crash when running Imagine (lots of FPU math). Removing the trapdoor and jacking up the case with four one inch rubber door stops fixed it nicely.

JaX

[DamageX]

You guys think a 68030 runs hot? You don't know what hot is! I have a laptop with a 3.3V Pentium 166 and no fan. That thing really cooks but it's still stable. And that's nothing compared to the latest x86 CPUs.

[steve30]

What are the latest x86 processors like?

The fastest one I have is a 500MHz Pentium III so it only needs a basic fan and heatsink and doesn't really get hot enough to fry the other chips.

(please say if you understand the joke in that last sentence) :lol:

[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.

[Wayne]

steve30,

the 68030 not needs any fan,so if runs very hot leave it alone...thats all and that's normal
also the 68060 cpu not needs any fan cause 3.3 volts technology
only the 68040 needs a fan so the use of that 1240 turboboards are not recommended on a normal A1200 case

bye, Laser