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From: karsh@trifolium.esd.sgi.com (Bruce Karsh)
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Subject: Re: Upgrading 25G to 35G
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Date: 19 Apr 91 03:53:31 GMT
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In article <1991Apr18.184549.21356@odin.corp.sgi.com> msc@sgi.com writes:

>Excuse me!  The "funky fan" is over the MIPS R3000 cpu chip.  The DSP is
>some considerable distance away on the other end of the circuit board.
>I would be very surprised if the DSP draws anywhere close to 150 mA.

The dsp chip draws about 75ma.  The "funky fan", also called the scatter
fan, is not intended to cool the DSP since the DSP runs pretty cool without
it.

			Bruce Karsh
			karsh@sgi.com