First post, by Baoran
I have no experience of how hot 486 cpus generally run. I have been recently testing 33Mhz 486DX cpu and I noticed that the cpu was really hot. Too hot to touch that if I had held my finger on top of the cpu more than a second I felt I would have burned my finger. I always thought that 486 like that didn't come with any cooling, but I did stick a heat sink on top of the cpu it without a fan for the duration of the testing just in case. I didn't even do anything that should have stressed the cpu since I was just trying to make the motherboard to boot.
Do you generally use some kind of cooling with 486 cpus?