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How necessary is small fan on Via Chip?

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mooseAndSquirrel

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I have a Soyo Dragon Plus motherboard. I have an 1800 athlon. I am not overclocking anything. I am trying to get the rig as quiet as possible and have discovered that the small fan on top of the via chip is one of the loudest in the rig. So I've unplugged it.

Now, is my computer about to melt? Do I need this fan? How do I measure the impact? (the health stats just give me CPU temp).

If I really need it, are there quieter alternatives?
 
I don't really know but I would leave it on there until you're question gets answered to avoid burning up your northbridge.
 
no it's not necessary. Most manufacturers make a version of the board with a fan and one without. This is because one board is meant to be overclocked and the other isn't. The chipset will run fine with just a passive heatsink. You need some kind of heatsink though. You can get heatsinks like this one in many places. That's price is in canadian dollars. I'm not sure where you live. You'll need some thermal adhesive to install it with too.
 
See Zalman ZM-NB32J. One of the review sites says that it makes the chipset
cooler than a heatsin/fan combination.
 
Buy some headphones, then listen to music lots, then you won't need to sorry about the noise the system produces.
 
I've got some nice surround speakers and find that extended listening on heaphones is unpleasant. Anyway, I'm looking at noise reduction as a challenge. Somehow or another the Dell desktop I have at work is completely silent. I need to open it up and see how they pull that off. My new P4 rig is close and my older Athlon rig is getting better. I'm almost tempted to water cool the Athlon system, but have never been good at plumbing. 😉
 
Well my ASUS has a bigger heatsink instead of a tiny one with a fan. The only reason they use those tiny heatsinks with the loud fan is to say they have "active cooling" which looks attractive to overclocking n00bs. Get a larger sink at mpja or something.
 
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