Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?
Why do you want to burn you CPU? a fan is very cheap.. less than $15 some
models. You can buy one in all computer stores.
Just curious.. why do you want to make this? (maybe you have other
solutions)
> This is strictly non-Debian but I haven't found any info on this
> anywhere so maybe someone can help: can I run a PIII with the CPU fan
> unplugged, provided I underclock it? I ran my Katmai 500MHz processor
> with the fan unplugged for a whole day, underclocked to 333MHz, it
> didn't even blink. This included 1.5 hours of intense benchmarking
> stuff (I was scared to push it for longer than that). Very hot though
> (couldn't touch the heatsink for more than a half second or
> so). 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.
>
Regards
Roberto
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