From: newbury@tecsun1.tec.army.mil (George Newbury)
Subject: Re: How hot should the cpu be?
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Organization: U.S. Army Topographic Engineering Center, Ft. Belvoir, VA.
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kushmer@bnlux1.bnl.gov (christopher kushmerick) writes:


>How hot should the CPU in a 486-33 DX machine be?

>Currently it gets so hot that I can not hold a finger on it for more than
>0.5 s. 

>I keep a big fan blowing on it, but am considering using a heat sink.

>Any advice?
	1.  Don't hold your finger on it
	2.  When cooking with it use a very small pan and be sure
	  to not spill liquids on the components
	3.  If you do not plan to cook with it there are a number of
	  small cooling fans designed to mount on the chip and plug
	  into your power supply.  Look in Consumer Shoppers.

	Now if only some innovative person could design and produce
a heat sink which could be used to keep my coffee warm, why I might
even buy a Pentium !