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Old 05-13-2008, 06:09 PM
Dave
 
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Default Re: Sparcstation 20 quad?

Craig Dewick wrote:

> Dunno about a full system, but a guy called Mario used to be selling brand
> new surplus high-speed single, dual and sometimes quad Hypersparc CPU
> modules on Ebay. I guess the stock has all gone but I was still seeing his
> listings up until the middle of 2007.
>
> Craig.


I would add I found an issue on old HyperSPARCs that is worth
considering. The things runs hot, but have some plastic screws holding
the heatsinks down to the CPUs. Over time those screws can become very
brittle and break. I found in most cases they don't actualy need to be
plastic, but work with metal ones. In the case where metal was likely to
short the PCB, I fitted a new plastic one. Better would have been
ceramic, but ceramic nuts and bolts are quite expensive.
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