Christmas Day Desktop A1200 PPC hacking (Warning: Large pictures)

[delshay]

the small black heatsink with built-in fan is better served on the original phase 5 heatsink where the phase 5 heatsink is cut-out and the fan/heatsink combo replace the cut-out the the phase 5 heatsink where the fan/heatsink combo comes into contact with the PPC processor which i use here for testing.

you have to find a way to cool both Bvision & Blizzard PPC card without any cut-outs with original trapdoor put back (no cut-0uts allowed) which i have done here.

Bvision ram does not need heatsink even at 100Mhz *new* standard on my card. if you are going to put heatsink on Bvision ram you have to find a way to add heatsink on the lower side of the card which i have done in the passed,but is not needed with all the test i have done.

Recommend: get the correct size heatsink/fan for Bvision like in the photo below.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3404

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by Loedown

Stephen King's Pet Cemetary is too good to be used as an Amiga levelling device.

A couple of Mills & Boon would have been far better, you sure as shit can't read them

Hey loedown,

You'll be pleased to know I've decided to re-read Pet Cemetary and have mounted some fugly feet instead. It does the job for now whilst I work out a long term solution.

Originally Posted by delshay

the small black heatsink with built-in fan is better served on the original phase 5 heatsink where the phase 5 heatsink is cut-out and the fan/heatsink combo replace the cut-out the the phase 5 heatsink where the fan/heatsink combo comes into contact with the PPC processor which i use here for testing.

you have to find a way to cool both Bvision & Blizzard PPC card without any cut-outs with original trapdoor put back (no cut-0uts allowed) which i have done here.

Bvision ram does not need heatsink even at 100Mhz *new* standard on my card. if you are going to put heatsink on Bvision ram you have to find a way to add heatsink on the lower side of the card which i have done in the passed,but is not needed with all the test i have done.

Recommend: get the correct size heatsink/fan for Bvision like in the photo below.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3404

Thanks for the info, I don't really intend to put the trapdoot back on. In fact as a cooling solution I'm really happy since since even under full load everything is nice and cool. And for me thats more important than squeezing a bit of plastic you can't see back in place.

The fan I put on the BVision again is doing an outstanding job, so no immediate plans to change it.

No Heatsinks on the BVision Ram, don't need them as even after prolonged use they're not hot, the chip in the bottom right gets pretty hot so I popped a little Heatsink on that for good measure. Otherwise BVision 100% happy.

Either way I don't *have* to do anything, after all its my project

Cheers,

Steve.

[fitzsteve]

Hey guys!

Just dropping by with some updated pics of the project

Not the most elegant solution but takes some strain off the A1200 Motherboard, fans are now wired to this Molex and direct to PSU:



Here's my crazy finger maming, blizzard cooler...



IDE Fix Express is in, had to use a 40pin CF-IDE because for some reason it would pick up the CF Card on the 44pin one - maybe cable was too long?

Anyway, working and shares power off the Molex-ATX PSU:



Spaghetti Junction



And some more shots for fun...











Thanks for looking!

Hope you enjoyed the hardware pr0n

[cosmicfrog]

ow and I wanted to see the flying desk Mod


do you think you will be takein the rf off this mother board ??

*delshay
So have you got any pics of your set up ?? If not any chance you could take some and post em on here Plz

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

ow and I wanted to see the flying desk Mod )

Lol, I have know idea what that is but it scares me

BTW, made a crap Video - wasn't going to show it but up'd it for a friend...

Enjoy (if you can stand the poor production value)

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[roy bates]

Originally Posted by fitzsteve

Lol, I have know idea what that is but it scares me

BTW, made a crap Video - wasn't going to show it but up'd it for a friend...

Enjoy (if you can stand the poor production value)

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i dident think the vedeo was that bad . have you got hipnotic,rogue and other addons

[cosmicfrog]

ahh I see you have found one of EAB`s amiga casualties in fact he has his own desieas named after him as well

@steve
Hope the holidays are going well

[fitzsteve]

Originally Posted by roy bates

i dident think the vedeo was that bad . have you got hipnotic,rogue and other addons

Thanks for that! I'm afraid you'll find many more of my projects around

If you have a spare 2 hours check out my Amiga Journey

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

ahh I see you have found one of EAB`s amiga casualties in fact he has his own desieas named after him as well

@steve
Hope the holidays are going well

Hey Mate! I leave at the end of the Month dude, still sitting here in the office doing very little