Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?
Pentium CPU's generally come with fans, so it's clearly not a price
issue.. I would have thought that at least one advantage of not
having a cpu fan is obvious, but if not, then feel free to view this
as a strictly theoretical problem..
-chris
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, John Griffiths wrote:
> Presumably this is not very good for the CPU. But will it last
> >about a year under these conditions? What about other Intel CPU's? A
> >Celeron? A gigahertz processor? If I underclock these things as far as
> >they will go (on my mobo this means 66 MHz bus speed), will they run
> >reliably without active cooling? Do I need a special heatsink? Where
> >can I buy one? And so on.
>
> WHY? a cheap fan will cost you what $20?
>
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