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.
thanks, chris
