On Sun, Mar 25, 2001 at 03:02:51PM -0800, 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.
I do not believe that this would be a good solution. If noise is your primary you could check out the Silverado coolers from NoiseControl and the review at Toms Hardware. http://www.noisecontrol.de/ (almost entire site is in german) http://www4.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q1/010306/index.html Hope this helps. /Anton -- Have you crashed your Windows today?
