Who needs a HSF:)

[Moving Target]

Forgot to post this last week, though some of you might get a kick out of this. Last week I went to put a Matrox G450 in one of my rigs, after removing the old vid card I noticed my cpu HSF was NOT pluged into the mobo. It had just been on for about 3hrs before I shut it down to replace the vid card, the heatsink was pretty warm but not to bad. The 3pin connector was just dangling off the HSF (I'm so smart I must have never pluged it in). This is on a Cel566 o/c to 850 on a Trinity 400 running stock voltage. I have no idea how long it has been like this, but I have not been inside this case for awhile.

Maybe I should set up MBM

Edit: and yes it still works just fine, and I did not seem to have any BSD before I noticed my blunder!

 

[bacillus]

guess you should count your blessings. mind you, if you had an AMD badboy in there, it would have been toast for sure!

 

[lifeguard1999]

Is it really a blunder?

I have wondered about the feasability of running a CPU with just a heatsink and no fan to keep it quiet. The PSU (or a second case fan) would have to exhaust the hot air. To do so, the CPU would have to run cool. This pretty much means that it would have to be a P3/C2 since AMD chips are hot.

A P3 500E/533EB/550E all run at less that 15 Watts when under full load. Throw in two Papst fans (19CFM @ 12 dBA each) will give you 15dBA noise. One fan goes in the PSU and the other as a case exhaust. I think that it could work. Put in a GeForce 2 MX with just a heatsink and no fan.

Such a system would be great for email/surfing/moderate gaming. Maybe the 0.13 micron P3's whenever they come out would be even better.