Comment feel the HEAT!!! NOT! (Score 1) 179
It's true that multiple CPU + SCSI tends to generate more heat than single CPU + UDMA. There is one solution for that though ... it's called a fan. But adding 10 fans inside an almost airtight box WILL NOT HELP! What you really want to do is open a "window" (sorry) in your case so that air can get in or out!!
I can give my nachine as an example. It was a dual PII 350 and the motherboard was showing 41 degrees celsius before modification. Then I took my jigsaw .. made a circular hole the size of a dead power supply fan .. and stuck a fan in there. Temperature has now dropped to a constant 31.5 degrees despite now running at 392Mhz (112Mhz bus)!! Note also that extracting the hot air on top of the CPUs seems more efficient than blowing fresh air on them.
All this to say that HEAT is not a real issue unless you try to overclock a P90 to 600! The main problem is that standart PC cases have really bad air circulation so your fans end up moving a lot of hot air around wich is much less cooling than getting the heat out of the box.
that was my 2 cents.
I can give my nachine as an example. It was a dual PII 350 and the motherboard was showing 41 degrees celsius before modification. Then I took my jigsaw
All this to say that HEAT is not a real issue unless you try to overclock a P90 to 600! The main problem is that standart PC cases have really bad air circulation so your fans end up moving a lot of hot air around wich is much less cooling than getting the heat out of the box.
that was my 2 cents.
