[CUBE] CPU Temp: How hot is too hot?...

[George Pepper]

I have noticed that if you have a lot of items connected to the Cube 
core, the convection/cable slot is pretty clogged up... I currently 
have Connected to the Cube: FW 1/2, USB 1/2, Ethernet, Modem, and the 
monitor and power supply... So what I did tonight was to put four 
flanges about the size of quarters and 3/8" thick under each corner of 
the case to lift it off of the desk a little... This did wonders for 
the computer, allowing freer convection, and lowering resting 
temperature by 21F!!! [Down from 111F to 90F]...

I am currently experimenting with various processor/video card load 
levels to see how the rest of the performance envelope is...

Pep

On Sunday, March 21, 2004, at 12:35 AM, David Lambourn wrote:

> For several years I ran a Sonnet G3 400MHz upgrade in a UMAX tower 
> from which I had removed the original three(!) fans - and had modified 
> the tower for convection-only cooling. I enquired of Sonnet who told 
> me that the top working temperature for the chip was 80 (I assumed, 
> rather than was told, Celcius) I used a free piece of software, that 
> came with the upgrade, to monitor the temperature which never got 
> above 46 as I remember.(I have forgotten the name of the software, but 
> I remember the icon being a silhouette of a black cat).
>
> How relevant that tea-time story is to running a G4 at 1.4GHz in a 
> Cube - I have been puzzling over for more than a year now!
>
> David
>
>
> On 20 Mar 2004, at 23:36, Snow White wrote: