From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Mar 30 22:19:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id WAA21633 for hardware-outgoing; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA21628 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:19:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id WAA06678; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:19:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA01266; Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:19:28 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199703310619.WAA01266@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Doug Russell cc: Paul Southworth , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Crashes with 6x86L-P200+ In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 30 Mar 97 22:12:28 -0700. Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 22:19:28 -0800 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-hardware@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Sounds like the usual problem with those CPUs... Heat. You need to keep >them cool, because they generate a *LOT* of heat. I have a *good* (ie. PC [...] >something. (The regulator probably has a BARELY adequate heatsink for >the -200 chip... It sucks a LOT of current, which might make the extra >fan a really good idea.) All the Cyrix chips I've seen come with a Cyrix-approved heat sink/fan combo. Cyrix got some flak for sending out chips that would fail with no-name heat sinks and fans. They are using large heat sinks with fans that spin faster than "normal" cheapo fans. They do this so they can ship out chips that run hotter at the higher speeds, by guaranteeing the provided heat sink/fan will keep the chip from burning up. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------