Thanks for the tip, do you mean packaging cardboard as 3mm is really thick or something else?Higgy wrote: ↑Tue Jun 09, 2020 9:02 pm Ghetto tip - if your swaping 060s out for testing, cut 3 strips of ~3mm wide card and place between cpu pins at top, middle and bottom positions. This holds the CPU off the socket a bit to make it easier to remove if you don't have correct removal tool.
Note: I don't think the cpu gets hot enough to burn card.
I've been looking at some fan/heatsink combos but havent really found what I want yet. I'd like one with clips that would attach to the cpu like seen in some old 3640 cards. I guess one could just bend their own clips or perhaps I need to up my google-fu. How much do you reckon there's height available?Higgy wrote: ↑Wed Jun 10, 2020 9:21 pm I fitted a fan that i had about.
It is quite surprising that although there looks to be loads of space inside the CD32 there never seems to be enough!
I could not fit a heatsink and a fan on top with what I had around. If the fan is directly glued to the CPU then there is no way for the air to get out, so I raised it up on some rubber feet and glued it on. Probably ok for home, but probably would not survive a trip in the postal service!
There was talk about certain RTC cards that have a small footprint but the "traditional" ones are facing so that they would not face the CPU. I have a few of these somewhere and I'll try to see how they fit when my board arrives. These are full width ones so there might be an issue with the fan socket but Mark suggested that perhaps this can be sorted by just bending the fan pins a bit.
I'm raring to go but I guess I'll have a long wait over the weekend.