On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 17:01:06 GMT, rstlne wrote:


"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 16:30:16 GMT, rstlne wrote:


"Peter Hucker" wrote in message
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That's one hell of a failure. I thought I was maybe overloading it,
but
I'm using 200W peak, and it was a 300W supply.

Anyway I've sourced a fanless one for £120....



Yea, I have seen some nice new fanless ones out there in the market..
Tho to be honest I woulda probably been more tempted to just mount a
couple
of NB coolers on the heatsinks inside the PSU itself (sure it could be
done).

NB?

I DID mount coolers on the heatsinks. But I think more than that needed
cooling.


Ahhhh
yea I see what you did now
..
Yea you probably needed a verry small airflow.. But nearly all of the heat
comes from those 5/6 (or 8/9 on some) amps that are connected to the 2
(sometimes 3) sinks..

I find it verry strange myself, Are you sure that there wasnt any leaking or
that even there wasnt possilbly metal shavings inside the unit after
installing the blocks?

No metalwork was done, they were big heavy things which stayed put with gravity and a little heatsink gunk (I hadn't got round to permanently doing anything with it), so no shavings.

My first thought was leaking (I have frightened a Northbridge with some water before - it just bleeped with memory or cpu errors on startup, even after dabbing with tissue and blowing for half an hour with a fan heater, but after leaving for 48 hours it worked - I guess it's hard to dry out UNDER a surface mount chip), but no, there was no water escaped - unless it evaporated ;-)



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