Les Railton's (Phipscube) Super A1200 Part 4

Well After a few weeks of seriously smashing my head and face against a wall trying to get Warp OS running, or ANYTHING software related , I finally gave in and tried to load Marios' awesome install (cheers Marios!). It didn't work on a HDD and was told to try it on a CF card, so I waited for a CF adapter I ordered. That came the other day, and with the help of Mr Fitz (who altered Marios' Install to default at 1024 x 768 ) I got this: -

HAHAHAHAHAAA!! I SCREAMED WAHAAAAY! and the image just suited perfectly (brilliant idea Steve!) I couldn't seem to get the Quake install Steve had setup to work, but instead I installed the Wipeout 2097 Demo: -

FWOARSOME! It worked great, and it looked fab! Cheers muchly Marios and Steve for the ability to make sure the BV was indeed a goodie So the BV is verifired finally, I decided to go back to my old crusty test install on HDD (with the above install I have no DVD, Delfina, Subway etc, and the CF readier is hanging out all over the place so the system gets pretty hot without them fans blowing!). I've been doing lots of random hardware things which aren't quite finished yet so wont show too much on those things (the main one is my home made Auto video switcher). But i'll show you all my nice heatsinks form a company called Alpha in Japan: -

The one on the 060 is infact 3mm high and is just there to help a little with dissipation. I've done some rough thermal tests and results show that the 060 is infact the hottest of the PPC, BV and itself with the case on, screwed down and the 3 fans blowing. Each chip is a good 9 to 10 deg C cooler with the case on. those fans ontop bring the BV down to 46 Deg C and the PPC to 55 Deg C whilst the 060 goes around 61 Deg C (mainly because it has no airflow over it). I'll be making more accurate measurements later and will post more detail here (I need a better Thermometer basically, as the one from work is cak) Then today this appeared in my post box: -

The APOWER by Mech over on A.Org.... this little beaut powers my WHOLE machine with no sweat! Look at the ratings: -

Its just pure Awesomeness.... look at it next to my old PSU....

And finally here it is next to my A1200 and running it: -

It doesn't seem right does it? that tiny PSU powers my whole A1200 in all its beastly form. Big thanks to Mike (Mechy) over on A.Org for this, absolutely amazing work, cheers mate! So coming soon will be a few more tweaks to the Delfina outputs, USB ports and the Auto Monitor Switcher!

Part 5 to follow soon :)