Emanuel Berg wrote: ... > But install fans and see if you still get high temperatures if > you didn't (?) ...
i have a very tiny fan and heatsink that is right on the processor. the rest of the system is fanless (no fan for the PSU - no fancy GPU needed for what i do). i almost bought a bigger heatsink so that the entire thing could run without the fan, but the small fan provided with the CPU has been adequate and quiet enough that i never have felt i had to buy the heatsink after all. i may do that in the future if this fan goes out. one of my main design goals with this machine was that it be very quiet (compared to the previous machines i had that sounded like jet engines taking off and making way too much noise all the time). the only time the fan runs on this computer is a few moments when i turn it on and it is booting up and once in a while when i run a process that wants more CPU (very rarely). the rest of the time i don't hear the fan at all. only with this change to the FTP software has it become an annoyance that made me go look for a way to deal with it. filing a bug against the FTP software is also something i should do, but i've not gotten that far yet. ;) songbird
