I am amazed that it didn't happen sooner! My MDD was regularly +150F, yet it didn't complain for five years. Meanwhile I had a feature creep situation with a project for recasing it. In fact, when it died, I was in the middle of distilling hundreds of CDs into a few DVD-DL of essential utilities and programs so that installing and maintaining my systems would be easier, I only needed another week or two. Now my discs are back to being as disorganized as they ever were!
Keeping thermal compound on hand is a good idea. My old school Macs didn't really need it, this was my first box where cooling was a major issue. Also I needed some for repairs I friend asked me about. I got fooled by the error messages referring to memory, the problem was the CPUs use of it.
I will see how this single 1gig goes, I expect it will be remarkably cooler than my dual 1.42 was. I have a naked spare MDD case which I will start retooling as a mounting plate and port panel for my next faster model. Even just a roomier case will help, with a full-length PCI video card, full-length PCI audio card, four hard drives, two opticals - sure, it all fit, and basically worked - but in a full size server like tower this stuff will be much happier.
Keeping thermal compound on hand is a good idea. My old school Macs didn't really need it, this was my first box where cooling was a major issue. Also I needed some for repairs I friend asked me about. I got fooled by the error messages referring to memory, the problem was the CPUs use of it.
I will see how this single 1gig goes, I expect it will be remarkably cooler than my dual 1.42 was. I have a naked spare MDD case which I will start retooling as a mounting plate and port panel for my next faster model. Even just a roomier case will help, with a full-length PCI video card, full-length PCI audio card, four hard drives, two opticals - sure, it all fit, and basically worked - but in a full size server like tower this stuff will be much happier.