[iyonix-support] Re: Pyjamas & Heat
- From: John Schild <john@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: iyonix-support@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 19:20:55 +0100
In article <4527E5BF.4050308@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, David Thomas
<dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've access to two Iyos: an older model in work and a newer Panther
> I've purchased second hand. I'd never seen "pyjamas" until I bought
> the Panther.
> When I cracked the Panther's case open I noticed how hot the heatsink
> had gotten on the nVidia card.
> I removed the existing card's heatsink and replaced it with a taller
> Zalman model designed for mounting on motherboards. (I also applied
> Arctic Silver thermal paste.)
> Since then I've not seen pyjamas once. This makes me wonder if some
> of the problems people are seeing are purely down to poor cooling.
> The nVidia card does seem to kick out more heat than anything else
> inside the case.
Precisely the point I made in a mailing of 12th July:
> > After I upgraded to RO5.11 many months ago pyjamas disappeared,
> > having previously been v. frequent. That is until the recent rise
> > in ambient temperature which took my Panther's on-board thermometer
> > up to 40 degrees C for the first time ever. Pyjamas now
> > occasionally recur. Nothing else internal or external has been
> > changed.
> > Is there a temperature effect which we've never isolated out?
At the time nobody picked it up......
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