XP1000 heat!

Nick Jones nick at freebsd.cx
Thu Sep 25 01:01:39 PDT 2003


On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 at 08:54:36 +0200, Riccardo Veraldi wrote:
> I have a nice XP1000, but it is quite warm on the top side of the cover.
> The CPU fan is working. I noticed anyway that the cache chips are really 
> HOT, they are burning if u put a finger on them. Perhaps they need 
> additional cooling or in your opinion is this normal?

It's normal.

> The machine is always running and has no problems at all, I mean it's 
> stable.

Yep, that's why I've never really worried.  They work fine, so I'm guessing
it's well within the operating tolerances that they were engineered for.

-- 

/Nick


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