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Processor Cooling
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A company called PC Power & Cooling makes a stick-on cooling fan for the
486 and Pentium processors that just happens to fit the 68040 perfectly.
The fan uses a stick-on backing to attach to the chip, so you don't have to
mess with little clips or spring wires. It spins on ball bearings instead
of a bushing, so life expectancy is claimed to be 50,000 hours instead of
the ordinary bushing fan's 5000 hours. A disk-drive power connector powers
the fan. Finally, it's only .6 inches high, no more than the heat sink that
comes with the A3640 processor board. PC Power & Cooling calls it by
several names; the best one to use is the "PENTA-COOL 54" for the 90 MHz
Pentium or the "CPU-COOL 1.9."
Some earlier versions of the fan had "corners" cast into the aluminum heat
sink to better fit the 486; these versions don't fit the 68040 without
modification, so ask for either of the versions above, or make sure they
know that the one you're purchasing must be of the flat variety.
In the United States, you can usually save a few dollars by ordering these
fans from large mail-order companies like PC Connection, but please make
sure of the model and brand first.
PC Power & Cooling
5995 Avenida Encinas
Carlsbad CA 92008
(800) 722-6555
(619) 931-6988 Fax
Converted on 02 Jun 1997 with RexxDoesAmigaGuide2HTML 2.1 by Michael Ranner.