Message from discussion Don't go dissin' my 90s!

From: "Tony Ingenoso" <to...@attglobal.net>
Subject: Re: Don't go dissin' my 90s!
Date: 2000/03/30
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With a good PS, I'd say go for it then.   I'm still a bit concerned about
the cooling on the P60/66's.  The side fan provides bredth as well as force
.   The T4 is a completely different beast thermally than a T2.

The L2's are pretty much out of the stream and they do run warm as does the
cache controller.  I've rigged a P90 similar to Tam's with big sinks on the
L2's and cache controller for my 180MMX Overdrive experiments (that are
going on in a M90 at the moment<g>).

 Tony

"Louis Ohland" <ohla...@inwave.com> wrote in message
news:38E3E4DA.36CA6F6@inwave.com...
>
>
> Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> >
> > Sounds like too much to me.  The M90's only about a 90 watt PS (the weak
> > point on an otherwise fine machine).
>
> Uh, Tony, look at the sticker again. There were at least two
> diferent PSs- a 194 and a 215 W model.
>
> > Consider going *external* for the drives.  A little 200M internal for
IML
> > and boot, and everything else external might allow a P60 to survive
power
> > wise, but cooling it may be an issue.  It won't have a side fan blowing
on
> > it in quite the same way as M95.  M90 has a fan, but air flow design
around
> > the complex is considerably different...
>
> Tony, that front fan on the 90 seems a helluva lot more
> forcefull than the wimpy side fan IMHO. He won't be able to
> use the blue air baffle, but maybe he can cobble one up out
> of pasteboard and Wisconsin Chrome (duct tape).
>
> The worst part about the 90's case is cable routing. If he
> can find a 76 or 77 cable with the braided sheath, I'd
> suggest popping the HPDB50 header off and crimping on the 50
> pin edgecard connector. I've done that, and it's S-O-O-O
> much easier.