Can i leave my volcano 6cu unplugged on xp1800 cpu?

[jinduy]

the fan is too loud...

 

[John]

You are asking for trouble by doing so. Unless you have a shroud to defer the heat, i wouldn't risk it. Purchase a panaflo fan.

 

[Eli]

I doubt it. You would need a monster heatsink to dissipate like 50W without a fan..

You won't hurt anything trying, though. Unplug it, and watch your temp.

It will probably just keep going higher and higher until your system crashes. Maybe not though. Probably depends a lot on the airflow in your case.

 

[jinduy]

what's the highest temp my cpu can go up to ? right now it's 42 C

 

[nemo160]

i had a delta die on my sk-6 n my tbird 1.4, the system would start to boot and then crash out before windows got done loading, took me awhile to figure it out because i cn't hear the delta over the 2 sunon 120s and my case itself kills noise pretty well
it did leave an image burned into the bottom of the sk-6 though.. that little square design thingy in the corner of the core..still fully functional though
point is, get a panaflo or other quieter fan for it, you'll have no stability with passive cooling and that hsf

 

[Siddhartha]

I just pasted the following off the AMD website:

"WARNING: Any attempt to operate the AMD Athlon XP? Processor without a suitable cooling solution will result in permanent damage to the processor and potentially other components within the system."

 

[agentK]

...and my case itself kills noise pretty well

nemo160: howd you get about doing this? am in the process of modding my case and am looking for all the tips i can get.

 

[MadRat]

You can get a 5000rpm version of the fan which is pretty quiet.

Otherwise just buy a whisper fan that runs in the 5000rpm range.

 

[Jen]

i would suggest a lower cfm fan to take care of the noise

 

[harmerj]

http://www.directron.com/silence.html has a good selection of quiet fans that really work. Just replace the fan itself with one of these. I'm getting a couple of case fans, and a cpu fan for that same cpu cooler (as well as the same cpu) from them sometime this week (UPS willing) and I'll let you know how it sounds when I get it all set up, if you're interested. But the fans came highly recommended from a friend of mine who wanted a quiet pc.


Jon