I'm not sure if Alpha has always been this way.  I've dubbed my AxpPCI-33 
(166Mhz cpu) the "Mini-tower Space Heater".  I can warm my sorta-large 
computer room up with it.  It also seems to draw a bit more power than my 
Duron 750... which can also heat a room.  My board did come without a fan, 
but I strapped one on from fear of melting the board.  The specs say they can 
go up to 85 C before it kills iteself.  <shudder>

- Pat

On April 1, 2003 11:03 am, Christian von Kleist wrote:
> Riccardo,
>
>      This is off the topic of your question, but my 21164 @ 500MHz is very
> cool (thanks RISC -- no fan on the heatsink, even) and the major
> source of heat seems to be the power supply which is very beefy.
> It's much cooler than my K6-2 450, if you can believe that.
>
> --
> c v k @ z y b x . c o m
>
> > Hello,
> > I Teaded a dual pentium III for an XP1000.
> > I am surprised to notice that the XP1000 is quite hot and warm on hte
> > upper side of the chasis. I checked the CPU fan of the CPU and it works
> > well. Is it normal for the Xp1000 to being warm outside on the upper
> > side ?
> > Anyone experienced overheating problems with XP1000 ?
> > this model is 667MHz CPU.
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > Rick