-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 25 March 2001 18:02, Krzys Majewski wrote: > 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
A PII with a gargantuan heat sink ... _maybe_, a PIII no way! You might be able to run a machine for about a year under such conditions that you describe, but by letting the processor run so hot you are definately prematurely aging it, speeding up electromigration and whatnot. It wouldn't surprise me if you would be plauged by spontaneous reboots and data corruption as well. If you need a PIII that will run without a fan, you really need to look at a laptop. Sean - -- You can rent this space for only $5 a week. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6vpAw16C1pcgeMvkRAqvNAKCvZlC/BdHsoirALvaogJ3C45JzSgCcDg6T mjvw3urdxywYVu8VRcbpXac= =yHI8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
