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From: jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: R6000 PCs?
Message-ID: <220@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 11 Jan 90 19:05:40 GMT
References: <3300092@m.cs.uiuc.edu> <76700106@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: jml@tw-rnd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Michael Lodman)
Organization: NCR Corporation - Distributed Systems Lab
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In article <76700106@p.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>Who says we won't go to KMart once a year for Prestone PC-coolant to
>add to our PC's radiator?  I can't see why it's so troublesome to cool
>1 card of ECL (CPU + cache).

And how are you going to cool the coolant? The problem is that you will
need really heavy duty air conditioning into the room, or to
radiate the heat outside the room some other way. ECL equipment can
heat up a room FAST!

By the way, add to your costs a much more expensive power supply for
the PC.

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