Silicon Graphics: Resurrection

[Sight Unseen]

Ooh, vintage hardware pron. Me gusta. Hope you get it up and running again, old hardware is always interesting to mess around with. Also, I wonder how hot those GPUs get. Being in ceramic they could get pretty high up there and sustain no damage.

[Aaron]

Originally Posted by Sight Unseen

Ooh, vintage hardware pron. Me gusta. Hope you get it up and running again, old hardware is always interesting to mess around with. Also, I wonder how hot those GPUs get. Being in ceramic they could get pretty high up there and sustain no damage.

Yeah, I expect the silicon in these old chips would fry long before the packaging! On this board, however, the clock crystal is only 27Mhz (though I suppose it could be multiplied somewhere). That, together with the lack of heat sinks and the fact that the computer case has only a very wimpy little fan in it, tells me that heat is not a major concern.

The CPU (on another board) is 100MHz, though, and it does have a heat sink.

I've organized all the best bits of my two machines into one case, and now I have a machine that powers up and then complains of a dead clock battery (and if it got past that, it wouldn't find an OS), but I'm getting somewhere!