Gorf help

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I've got a gorf that seems to have over heating issues. When left on for a bit it gets more and more sluggish and laggy. I'm guessing it's either the processor or the custom chip thata getting over heated. Has anyone else ran into this? I know people have used heat sinks on some of their pcbs, would this be a candidate for that and if so can anybody suggest what kind to use?
 
I've got a gorf that seems to have over heating issues. When left on for a bit it gets more and more sluggish and laggy. I'm guessing it's either the processor or the custom chip thata getting over heated. Has anyone else ran into this? I know people have used heat sinks on some of their pcbs, would this be a candidate for that and if so can anybody suggest what kind to use?

While I'm not sure what part is overheating let me say that if you don't have a heat sink on the U15 custom chip then you have a problem that will most likely destroy that chip. That particular chip runs very hot and why you see so many heat sinks on them is that Midway put out a tech memo that said to add the heat sink. One interesting note is before I found that bulletin I thought there would be some kind of special adheasive but I found out they specified "Super Glue". :)

-Commander Dave
 
U15 NEEDS a heat sink. Also make sure your CPU board (the one with U15) is the last card in the rack so that it faces outward to your cabinet. That way heat will be dissipated away from that PCB better.
 
You can easily find small heatsink online that will work, just measure first and you can either have it overlap the chip a bit widthwise and drill 2 holes in the sink and attach with screws (fairly sure there are holes on all the versions of the pcb already) and use regular heat compound like arctic silver. You can also use the adhesive type heat compound as well if you can't attach with small bolts.
 
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