Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:52:40 06/29/98
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On June 29, 1998 at 13:34:45, Keith Ian Price wrote: >On June 28, 1998 at 16:43:10, Tim Mirabile wrote: > >>On June 28, 1998 at 02:30:52, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >> >>>>And if the DB hardware is too big or hot to be inside an ordinary PC, it can be >>>>placed in an external box with an expansion card to interface with it. But >>>>would the PCI bus present a bandwidth bottleneck when compared with the >>>>processor and DB chip speed? Or would the DB hardware have its own processor >>>>which does the coordination between the DB chips. >>> >>>The new 3D chips coming out are probably at least as big and hot as a DB chip, >>>and cooling them isn't a huge problem. >> >>I see I left something out - my concerns were about the 8 chip version. > >I understood that, which is why I replied as I did. > >kp Actually, there are *plentyI of "hot chips" running in PC's. Some of the pentiums and PII's are almost glowing. I had a pentium pro here that had a fingerprint on top of the chip (had no heatsink nor fan) where someone said "hey, how hot do those things get .ssssssizzle, *ouch*, *dammit*" Took a layer of skin off and permanently bonded it to the top of the chip. :)
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