CPS-A-01 Custom

[ShootTheCore]

That's some food for thought. I wonder how many of these chips have failed simply due to insufficient cooling...

I added passive heatsinks to all my CPS1 CPA-A-01 customs for just that reason. Haven't had one fail yet - fingers crossed.

 

[duffcon]

I added passive heatsinks to all my CPS1 CPA-A-01 customs for just that reason. Haven't had one fail yet - fingers crossed.

@GoldenGlover - Thanks for the link. In my opinion, it can't possibly hurt to add cooling. For the $1 per heatsync, it's cheap insurance.

 

[nem]

I don't know, I've bought many CPS2 A boards with seized fans. I have no doubt in my mind that atleast some of them had been running like that for ages. Hell, I ran one for a full year myself because I forgot to plug in the connector for the fan :s I bet those boards on average run hotter than CPS1 since they're enclosed.

Also, I'm highly skeptical of how much the fan installed on QSound cases cools the boards down.

I'm leaning towards the later customs just being better manufactured.

 

[jassin000]

I'm leaning towards the later customs just being better manufactured.

We can only speculate unless we can get some images from a few failed customs.
Being that a great many undocumented chips have yet to receive this treatment, the world may never know.