[mythtv-users] Fanless, not only quiet

David Brodbeck gull at gull.us
Fri Oct 5 20:08:31 UTC 2007


On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 03:07:28PM -0400, John Drescher wrote:
>> As for this site. That is good advice about the motherboard fan
>> (replacing it with a large heatsink) although unless you are
>> overclocking 99% of the time you can just unplug it and you will be
>> fine. I know this because at work (over the last few years) dozens of
>> these little fans have failed without me knowing and systems have not
>> had any problems at all.
>
> You're a lucky guy.  I've had 3 or 4 clients lose CPUs due to
> fan-failure burndown.

He also may be giving up performance.  Some modern CPUs protect  
themselves by throttling back when they get too hot.





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