[mythtv-users] Fanless, not only quiet

John Drescher drescherjm at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 20:12:59 UTC 2007


On 10/5/07, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> 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.
>
I was talking about the motherboard fan and not the CPU fan. Sorry, I
guess to many ()s in a sentence.

John


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