[mythtv-users] Fanless, not only quiet

Josh White jaw1959 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 5 20:13:14 UTC 2007


In this case, "performance" is measured in number of decibels, with lower
being better.  As long as it performs all the desired functions, who cares
of your 3.0ghz machine is actually running at 2.5ghz?

On 10/5/07, David Brodbeck <gull at gull.us> wrote:
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> On Oct 5, 2007, at 12:56 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
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> > 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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