Jaime Vives Piqueres wrote:
> On 29/09/12 19:00, waggy wrote:
> > By any chance, have these computers been located at high altitude
> > and/or latitude?
>
>    No, it's just that both have had episodes of overheating... the first
> one was due to an insufficient heat-sink, and this one worked for some
> minutes with a broken (stopped) heat-sink fan until I noticed... it
> happened some months ago, I replaced the fan and everything seems to
> work fine, but I guess something is failing under extreme conditions
> (that is, POV-Ray at work).

Thanks. That's really good to know.  With no A/C in south Texas, I worry about
frying my electronics.

But, I just had to verify the correlation with the 11-year solar activity cycle
was just coincidence.

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