Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?
Noise.
-chris
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001, Roberto Diaz wrote:
>
> 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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