The two funny looking widgets in front of the P7215 in this picture are Hewlett-Packard TurboCoolers. They aren't made any more; they were made for expensive PA8000 RISC processors which pumped out more than 80 watts. A cottage industry has sprung up among salvagers of these gorgeously machined objects.
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Forgot to mention this earlier:
www.bgmicro is another place to check out for surplus electronics. They're shipping isn't too bad, the service is outstanding, and they've got some interesting stuff- like Comair Rotron Major DC 24v 6.75" fans that flow 235cfm @ 24v and run happily of <10v
www.pcliquidator.com has some insane deals on surplus computer hardware sometimes (ASUS mATX s478 boards for ~$20...) and http://www.softwareandstuff.com/index.html is a local (for me) place I found a few weeks ago- how about 18gb 10,000rpm SCA SCSI drives for <$20 each, 10 for $150?
LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited September 2003
Beautiful machining of those little heatsinks. Almost art.
That Panaflo in the thread starter - anyone know what socket it fits? It does have four holes for mounting hardware, but comes with none.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
It actually won't fit any socket afaik. I'm pretty sure the RISC cpus they went on were some proprietary interface. You could probably adapt one to anything you wanted to tho- I mean Dan got one on a Slot Athlon...
Those are nice looking but my 80MM fan mod sits close to my PSU now. That 90MM Model plus the sink will most definatly hit my PSU and make installation almost impossible due to you cant reach the retainer clip.
Just an observation
its sooo confusing...mommy hold me!!! which dan could it possibly beee???
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Mt_GoatHead Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin)Icrontian
edited September 2003
WuGgaRoO said its sooo confusing...mommy hold me!!! which dan could it possibly beee???
ROTFLSHIPMP!!!
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
Danball- sorry, I should've been more specific... Since I linked to & quoted Dan's Data, I assumed that everyone would assume the Dan I was referring to was the guy that owns/runs Dan's Data...
If you ever find an HP (Agilent) HACE (ArtiCooler CE) grab it.
These have very nice C/W.
They are derived from the old RISC style coolers and were made to fit the high powered pentiums.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
In my SGI Indigo, the heatsink is freakin huge! It sits atop the processor (which is guess is a RISC processor) and is just kinda screwed on. I think it uses a screw/tension spring setup like some of the socket A heatsinks use these days except that those old processors are big. You'd probably have a hell of a time mounting it to a modern board, but I bet it would be worth the effort if you did.
i have a smaller version of that i bought from allelectronics, but they don't carry it anymore. i figured it would be more manageable to mod for use with a standard processor and motherboard, but i never actually did anything with it.
they're definitely cool, although mine is blue anodized and quite a bit smaller, so it isn't quite as cool.
i've always wanted to do something with one of those things.
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Geeky1University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited September 2003
If it's blue and a lot smaller, are you sure it's not one of thermaltake's blue orbs?
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Forgot to mention this earlier:
www.bgmicro is another place to check out for surplus electronics. They're shipping isn't too bad, the service is outstanding, and they've got some interesting stuff- like Comair Rotron Major DC 24v 6.75" fans that flow 235cfm @ 24v and run happily of <10v
www.goldmine-elec.com and www.markhannahsurplus.com are both also supposed to be good...
www.pcliquidator.com has some insane deals on surplus computer hardware sometimes (ASUS mATX s478 boards for ~$20...) and http://www.softwareandstuff.com/index.html is a local (for me) place I found a few weeks ago- how about 18gb 10,000rpm SCA SCSI drives for <$20 each, 10 for $150?
Surplus places are gooood
That Panaflo in the thread starter - anyone know what socket it fits? It does have four holes for mounting hardware, but comes with none.
Just an observation
Which Dan are you talking about? There are 3 others with Dan in there user name.
ROTFLSHIPMP!!!
These have very nice C/W.
They are derived from the old RISC style coolers and were made to fit the high powered pentiums.
they're definitely cool, although mine is blue anodized and quite a bit smaller, so it isn't quite as cool.
i've always wanted to do something with one of those things.