More rigs to the cause!

[KaraK]

I've got a couple of boxes I'm gonna try throw together out of spare parts and get them crunching cancer. They aint much... just a K6 233 and a P166MMX but they should help right ?

[ImaginAsian]

Awesome Kara!! Anything helps and we need more firepower! :big gun:

[Mad dog]

Speaking of more firepower, i'm sorry to say that i haven't got round to asking my mate who owns a computer store if i can install UD on the machines there :(

I'll have to wait till next weekend now

[KaraK]

fell a bit behind on building those rigs... my gf popped down for a couple of days but I'll get right back on it, only problem is that the P166 doesnt have a HSF I've got a spare Socket A HSF but it uses mobo power and I dont know if the board has a connector...

[floppybootstomp]

Karak, if you can actually clip the socket A cooler to the 166, just snip the plug off, bare the wires and stick em straight into a spare PSU 12V DC connector (you'll possibly need a meter to identify the 12V, can't remember their colours offhand) hold 'em in with a coupla matchsticks or something.

That recommendation totaly flies against 'The good technician's guidebook' but hey, it's ghetto and it works :D

[Orange Peel]

Go on... Stick em in :sarcastic

[KaraK]

Originally posted by floppybootstomp
Karak, if you can actually clip the socket A cooler to the 166, just snip the plug off, bare the wires and stick em straight into a spare PSU 12V DC connector (you'll possibly need a meter to identify the 12V, can't remember their colours offhand) hold 'em in with a coupla matchsticks or something.

That recommendation totaly flies against 'The good technician's guidebook' but hey, it's ghetto and it works :D

the HSF fits the socket but I didnt really want to mangle it. Might raid the big pile of electronics components on my desk at work and try and build some sort of ghetto connector for it...

[martzweb]

dont bother putting a hsf on it, and see how long it goes b4 falling over ......

i have a 133 running nt4 server, and it's been going months without a hsf :)

kinda forgot to get one for it.......ooops!

[Mad dog]

So thats why your the 'unhinged' mod

[KaraK]

a friend tried running a 166 using a 486 HSF and it lasted about a week.. I'm told you could hear the pop

[Mad dog]

The funiest one i heard was of someone who bought a cyrix chip(he obviously had low IQ :D ) and didn't get a big enough HSF or only got the heat sink. Any way he powerd up and when h smelt burning he turned it off, opened it up, and too his horror the chip had gotten so hot it had melted a hole through his mainboard :flame: