24 March 2021, 23:37 | #1 |
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Slapping a fan onto a CPU
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Let's say I want to use active cooling to keep an 060 cool. What should I use between the fan and the CPU? It has been a long, long time since I used arctic silver and I cannot remember if it would have a strong enough hold to keep the fan from falling off of the CPU. Regards, |
25 March 2021, 00:33 | #2 |
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A fan does not benefit from arctic silver. I guess you mean a heat sink (plus fan attached to the heat sink)?
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25 March 2021, 01:59 | #3 |
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Yeah, that. Will that paste be okay?
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25 March 2021, 03:15 | #4 |
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I think you can get away with double sided thermal adhesive tape.
Paste won't be ok unless you have some mechanism to stop the heatsink from moving around. My 060 card came with a fan screwed directly into the heatsink. It was too noisy so I removed it. I may look for another that is quieter. |
25 March 2021, 03:23 | #5 |
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So you are running the 060 with no active cooling. How is that working for you? What clock?
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And it has worked for me for over 20 years now. The rev 1s do run quite hot, but still manageable. Remember that 486s didn't absolutely require heatsinks either, before the DX4s came along. After those it's been the norm for CPUs to require one, but the 060 is an old chip.. :-) |
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Something like this noctua fan would probably work, screwed directly onto the fins, if you want active cooling - if you are overclocking. |
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25 March 2021, 06:55 | #8 |
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Agreed, overclocked cpus do need a heatsink+fan. If yours is in a desktop or tower, a 486 heatsink/fan combo will fit over an 040/060 somewhat.
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27 March 2021, 23:07 | #9 |
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Jope, you think a blizzard ppc w 060 rev 6 needs any cooling if its in a tower?
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Just double checking, since I do not want to melt anything to the ground. |
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01 May 2021, 00:07 | #12 |
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Pointless installing a fan onto a 68060. The 68060 runs at 3.3v as apposed to a 68040 which runs at 5v and generates more heat. You can overclock the 68060 if your wish by changing the oscillator crystal on the board, but then you have to watch out for motherboard timings throwing things out of sync, and the overclocking of a 68060 is miniscule. To summarise 68060 doesn't need a fan, and don't experiment with overclocking. These cards are like gold dust and not worth the risk.
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01 May 2021, 17:49 | #14 |
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Right, thanks for the info all. I can just leave the PPC cpu with the "black box" and standard fan that comes with the blizzard card and not need to worry about it?
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Yes, and the "black box" cooler + fan must always be there when you run the board, else the PPC will cook.
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But anyway, since the '060 and the PPC can be overclocked separately, it's easy to overclock just the '060, which is a long established mod. And, because the design is asynchronous (as I explained already), there's no need to worry about messing up motherboard timing or anything like that. Since there are also '040 versions of these boards, they're designed for a higher thermal load than a stock '060, and thus an overclocked '060 with active cooling won't be a problem either. |
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I moved my Apollo1260/66Mhz from Tower to desktop case, it came with this heatsink+fan solution mentioned above, the fan makes it too big to fit under the keyboard.
But as JOPE and others say above, you don't really need a fan for 060, but wouldn't it be better to have a slim heatsink slapped on there than nothing? Or does it have little/no cooling help at all? Anyone have a good suggestion for slim heatsinks that one could stick onto the 060? Preferably ones of those that come with glue-tape on it, so you don't have to mess with this paste thing I remember using on PC back in the day. |
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Im using little bga heatsinks ontop of my 040 in my desktop 1200 with a blower fan blowing across them, Its also still got its stock heatspreader thing that elbox fitted,
Being an 040 it probably wont overclock much in my case, I think I tried going from 33 to 40 years ago and it didnt work so its been at 33 ever since. |
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