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Tony Day
Posts 62
01 Jun 2017 10:34
| I noticed that the Vampire can get pretty hot. I was wondering if anyone has tried to cool it (not heatsinks)? I was thinking of getting a mini usb powered fan and sticking it to the underside of the keyboard but i have to make sure its small enough not only so it doesn't touch the vamp but also to be able to close the case. Has anyone tried this? Is it even advisable or needed? If so what fans did u use (links pls :)) Thanks
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Carlos Milán
Posts 95
01 Jun 2017 10:40
| Mine works all the day with stress testing and without cooling. Vampire can get hot, but compared to a 68040 or 68060 it is pure ice.
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Tony Day
Posts 62
01 Jun 2017 11:05
| I was talking to someone on FB and they reckoned Denise gets alot hotter and any heat coming form the vamp is the cpu underneath. If that's the base i wont worry about cooling... none of my Amigas needed it and they've never broke down on me. Cheers anyways.
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Michal Warzecha
Posts 209
01 Jun 2017 11:09
| You can use some small heatsink and use fan from laptop computers, are small, relative silent and can pull air to dedicatet direction. Of course- heatsink direction. I have use it with 060 on my BPPC.
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Martin Soerensen
Posts 232
01 Jun 2017 12:32
| I don't think it gets particularly hot. I can keep my finger on any part of it indefinitely without getting burnt and that means it is far from too hot. On the V600, the CPU underneath does add a bit of heat to the Vampire while on the V500 the old CPU is removed. From a heat perspective, it should easily last 10-20 years in 24/7 operation (which in practice is ~forever since nobody is running these 24/7) before the RAM and FPGA dies which is not unlike regular 020 and 030 accelerators which rarely dies from heat issues unless overclocked.
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Roy Gillotti
Posts 517
01 Jun 2017 15:33
| I struggled with connection issues on my V600, I gave the pins of the 68000 a good cleaning, tightened it up a bit and noticed it ran a lot cooler than it did prior. sort of related a little ways down on Kipper's updates page he posts some thermal images.
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Documentation about the Vampire hardware