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Will my cpu fry?

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ByteMe

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I just switched motherboards to a PII400. It orginally came with a power supply that had a powerful fan that blew down on the cpu.

Well that powersupply died so I am using my newer Enermax power supply and it doesn't blow down at all. It actually sucks up.

So I'm wondering will this cause the cpu to burn up?

After the computer is on for 5 - 10 min the heatsink only gets mildly warm.

So am I safe?





 
You should be fine. In fact, you're probably better off than before. If there was a fan blowing air from the power supply on the cpu, that would warm it up.
 
I had a PII 266 that was set up the same way, no fan just the power supply blowing on it. When I chenged out the case I put a fan on it just to be on the safe side, fans run about $8, I'd spend the extra myself since the chip would cost you about $50 to replace.
 
YOu will be fine. if the heat sink is slighty warm to the touch then that is peachy. If you want, I would mount a fan to the heatsink it self and leave the powersupply thing alon. Personally I never liked using the ps as a mounting surface for fans... looks cheap.
 
Why don't you just put a fan on the heatsink? It costs only $5.00 or so to get one at any of your local computer stores....
 
You should buy a very cheap screw-on fan that usually attaches to heatsinks. You can buy a $2 fan that you would normally put on a socket-based heatsink. You don't need speed monitoring or anything like that.

Note:
I took a cooling fan off a P3-550 heatsink, and it's still perfectly stable, but maybe you got 10 SCSI drivers that melt the case? 🙂
 
you should be good to go ... i had a p2 350 that could run at 466 with practically no hs/fan...hahaha... i had one on but then when i checked it out it wasn't even touching the plate... it was the old secc slot so the core wasn't exposed. oh well...
 
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