Re: [OT] running a PIII with no fan?
I dropped by the campus bookstore just now and saw two quiet
machines. One is of course the Apple G4 Cube. You can hear the hard
drive on it, but only barely. It's a bit of a black box though --
didn't see where I could plug in, say, a microphone. The display model
had a huge (>= 24") LCD screen and played DVD's nicely (hardware
decoding? software decoding?).
The other is this box called Sony Vaio Sound Studio, or something like
that. It looks like a regular ATX-type box but with a nicer paint
job. Didn't hear any CPU fan on it, can anyone confirm this?
As far as variable speed, goes, I think my Slot-1 motherboard (ASUS
p3v133) supports it, since the hardware monitor (both BIOS and
lm-sensors) report fluctuating fan speeds. However, I think the p3v133
doesn't have enough temperature sensors to make this feature
useful. Basically the fan always spins at 4000-4500 RPM. It seems to
me if I could do the same thing to my CPU fan as I did to my P/S fan -
re-wire it to run at a lower voltage - both my computer and my ears
would be happy. A proper temperature sensor (thermistor?) would of
course be the right solution, anyone know how to build/buy/install one
of these? Failing that, maybe I'll just get a resistor at Radio Shack
and try patching that into the wire from the fan to the
motherboard.. suggestions on this also welcome.
-chris
On Mon, 26 Mar 2001 idalton@ferret.phonewave.net wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 11:19:19PM -0800, Krzys Majewski wrote:
> > 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)
> [snip: wanting to run without a fan]
>
> I hear there exist fans that can turn on and off according to
> temperature. The local computer shop down the road is trying to find one
> for me. Aparantly the newer P3 box sets have temperature-driven
> variable-speed fans, too. And I believe some motherboards can even
> control the fans through i2c, though I've not personally run across one.
>
> I was running my K6/300 for a while with the fan power disconnected, and
> attaching it when doing CPU-intensive things like compiles and music. I
> also have noflushd installed and have the hard drive spin down.
>
> -- Ferret
>
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