| From: | laire |
| Date: | 13 Jul 2001 at 23:10:03 |
| Subject: | Re: I'm THROUGH with PPC!! [tower talk, too!] |
--- In amigactive@y..., Sean Courtney <dauber@w...> wrote:
> --- laire@t... wrote:
>
> > > laire said,
> > >
> > > > My A4000 is always open and there`s no cdrom/hd in it and
> > > > that`s probably the reason why no ppc card has ever failed
> > > > for me.
> > >
> > > That's not really an acceptable restriction Ralph. phase 5 sold the
> > > CSPPC for use in a 4000 desktop. It came with software on CDROM,
> > > including hard drive installers, so it's reasonable to assume the
> > 4000
> > > has both HD and CD.
> > >
> > When people insert all that stuff into an A4000 they seem to
> > think the A4000 was designed for that...imho CBM had never made
> > an airflow analysis for the machine.
>
> BTW -- in my original post, I failed to note that my A4000 is in a
> Power Tower case. That thing has a TON of breathing room...
>
> Oh...and dig...in case you've never seen a Power Tower, they're
> huge...they're tall and WIDE...except for the front panel, it's all
> metal; no plastic.
>
> I usually have two hard drives, CPU card, and 4 Zorro cards in the
> unit, and it feels light as a feather...yet my wife's PC tower is
> short, narrow, made of plastic and has less crap inside it [and a much
> smaller motherboard], the thing weighs a ton...I don't get it!
>
Ok..then it shouldn`t be heat related..
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