I'm planning to do this with a P133.
I think a tower case will help to create a chimney effect.
I'll definately remove the fan otherwise it will restrict air flow.
John
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> Sent: 10 July 2001 00:14
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> Subject: Re: [Leaf-user] Could the CPU fan removed?
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>
> I have three machines running with no power supply fans. Normally I
> wouldn't recommend this but there are situations where it can
> be helpful...
> I work at a cement plant. If there is much air flow through
> the machines,
> then the floppy and cdrom drives tend to fail quickly due to
> dust buildup.
> Aslo, the PS fan fills with dust and the bearing gets ruined.
>
> So I removed the PS fan from the power supply then cut out
> the grill from
> the case using tinsnips. This seems to have created a large
> enough hole for
> the warm air from the PS to escape. SO far all three
> machines have been
> fine for over one year. These systems are pretty bare bones
> though, just one
> HDD and a fairly mild CPU. This trick will not work if you
> have a lot of
> HDDs or anything else that generates a lot of heat inside the
> case. But for
> floppy based machines it seems to work for me.
>
> The details of the systems:
>
> 1. i486DX2-66 - 2 FDDs, no CPU heatsink or fan
> 2. i486DX2-80 (running@100mhz) - 2 FDDs, 1 HDD, cpu heatsink and fan
> 3. ipent-133 - 2 FDDs, 1 HDD, cpu heatsink and fan
>
> Elvis
>
>
> >Hi,
> >
> >Binh Do wrote:
> >>
> >> This sounds rather hardware-ish but I am talking about the
> machine running
> >> LRP with one floppy so just wonder if any of you have done
> that and if is it
> >> safe?
> >>
> >> The machine is Pentium 233-MMX, Asus motherboard.
> >I've done the same (just don't even think about removing the
> fan of the
> >power supply - even though I'm told that under ideal
> conditions even that
> >could work). But I also downclocked the cpu (to something
> like 90 MHz or so)
> >and added the largest passive heatsink for Pentium PCs I could find.
> >Everything works flawlessly so far. But, you might want to
> keep an eye on
> >the cpu-temp on hot days nevertheless (using lmsensors).
> >
> >Martin
> >
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