Thermal overloads

[Meirion Roscoe]

I have a theory!
My cube is a stock 450 with a 120 GB hard drive.  I have thermoindock 
and the menumeters thingy and both show a reasonably constant 26 +/- 5 
deg C.  I read a lot of discussion on this site about people having 
upgraded cpu/graphics card meltdown when others with a similar 
configuration do not.

This is my 2p worth

I live in North Wales which is about 0 - 14 Deg C in the winter and 12 
- 26 ish in the summer.  If you live in say Arizona and you're cube 
blows up when it's 40+ outside then might that not be due the CPU 
getting a thermal headstart due to the enviromental issues?  I know we 
can all argue the Aircon arguement but that can struggle sometimes to 
keep below mid 20's and not everyone has an efficient system.  My cube 
is in my cellar with all my Vino and it's always about 8-14 deg here 
and that's got to help a potentially hot, upgraded system.

Please feel free to mail back from darkest Alaska with tales of cube 
meltdown or from  Central Congo with tales of Dual 1.4Ghz, Radeon 9000, 
Barracuda 120's working perfectly, to blow my theory clean out of the 
water
On Sunday, Feb 1, 2004, at 18:56 Europe/London, Riba wrote:

>> I'm inspired to upgrade my Cube after the information today 
>> suggestion the
>> processors and video upgrades don't actually use more power. More 
>> discussion
>> about this please!
>
> I'd also like some input on this. Aren't the latest revisions of the 
> G4 CPU supposed to draw even less power than the original 450 MHz, and 
> produce _less_ heat? Or is this statement only valid if they are both 
> running on the 450 MHz ;)
> It is common that with the development the electronics components draw 
> less power - but the reason is only so that you can pump in more MHz 
> before the whole thing melts.
> I'm looking at the upgrades even though I don't actually need one - 
> the 450 MHz processor is still completely adequate for my needs (I 
> wonder if I'm the only one left with the original processor?), but if 
> I'd gain anything else besides the speed with the upgrade, I might go 
> for it.
> For example, I'd trade some speed for lower temperature than the 
> current 450 MHz CPU, if that isn't too much to expect.
>
> Whoa, what a rant...but the sunday evenings in the hotel tend to be 
> boring :)
>
>
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