Can a pentium 133 run 24/7 without a fan?

[BredStik]

Just answer the question below:

Can a pentium 133 run 24/7 without a fan?
(it has a heatsink though...)

Thanks

 

[PING]

not even a case fan?

i have a dell pentium pro 200 that runs 24/7 without a fan on the heatsink, but it has a case fan.

 

[Yoshi]

I had a Pentium 166 that ran 24/7 for about 4 years without a fan on the heatsink or a fan in the case, only a fan in the PS.

 

[AkumaX]

yeap

 

[Priit]

Most of the P133 I have seen have been with passive cooling...

 

[sandorski]

As long as it has a decent heatsink. My bro once bought some P166 systems for the local library. These things were cheap, literally in every sense of the term. After 3-4 months both systems began crashing/locking up. After bringing them home and goofing around with them, he noticed that the fans were running very slow on one system and that the fan on the other needed a push to get going! Needless to say, he replaced the hs/fan with a better hs/fan and all problems were solved.

Anyway, almost any SS7 hs will be enough to keep a P133 cool, but the more standard Pentium hs will likely be insufficient.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

You can always slap a zalman heatsink on can call it a life time 🙂

My cousin's P166 had a moderate (by today's standards) sized heatsink and it kept it cool enough to work. A bit not for my tastes, but hey, not Compaq's

 

[KouklatheCat]

A lot of the Packard Bell computers I have tortured......um I mean worked on only had a heatsink with a fan somewhere nearby blowing on it. I disconnected the fan on some of them and they went into thermal shutdown.

 

[DoubleL]

I would think so I worked on a guys P5A K-6 2 266 a couple weeks ago and he said he has had a feed back every since he had the computer, It starts to feed back after you are on it about 30 minutes or so, Well when I took it apart the fan on the heatsink wasn't working and the feed back was a heat warning from the mother board, So I would say any of the smaller computers can run without a fan but I wouldn't want to run them that way

 

[rwalterk]

A decent heatsink should do the job. I remember doing desktop support starting with the 486s, and not seeing fans on heatsinks until the PII-233 came out. We had a bunch of Pentiums (90Mhz to 200Mhz) that ran 24/7. Can't hurt to add a fan, but it should be fine without one.

 

[CTho9305]

most of the 486's I've played with had ultrasmall heatsinks and small fans. I'd say it really depends on the rest of the case setup. OEMs tend to drop on a huge heatsink and no fan, then use the case / PS fan to move the air. But some setups don't have the necessary airflow and it might crash. You could always try it... take off the fan, load it with SETI for a few hours and see.

 

[sandorski]

DoubleL: LOL, that's not feedback, that's screaming!!!! :Q

 

[Nack]

Probably, if the sink is big enough.

"Just try it!" (sorry, couldn't resist) 🙂

Hmmm, I wonder what he's gonna use THAT box for...

 

[CraigRT]

yes it can.. i've seen P100 and P133 gateway linux boxes that run for so long without maintenance the fans just die and they keep running 24-7/365 with no problems.. just make sure there is at least a decent HS on that thing... it'll run warm, but it'll still run for sure.