just a quick note - free shipping at buy.com this weekend...
On Sat, 18 Sep 1999, chris tillman wrote:
>Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 18:42:02 -0500
>From: chris tillman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Nolan Darilek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Cc: SIGLinux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: To fan, or not to fan . . .
>
>Have you looked at www.pricescan.com ? Looks like you could get a Retail
>PIII-500 from Buy.com for $240. But i'm sure it'll probably cost about
>10 S&H. Personally, i prefer Active cooling vise passive on my CPU's and
>have bought from buy.com many times and would recommend them as being
>reputable. The retail CPU's have 2 X 40mm(??-not sure of exact size)
>fans mounted on them. Another site i just found is www.2cooltek.com -
>They've got various fans, but i've never bought from them. I use a
>(www.baycooler.com)Justcooler for my 10K rpm harddrive and i see a HD200
>for 14.50 at 2cooltek and the same Justcooler i have is at
>(http://www.coolerguys.com/CPUCOOL/BayCool.htm) for about 12 bucks. That
>Justcooler cooled my 10K rpm hard drive down significantly. Seems that a
>general conclusion people come up with is that if you have a 7200rpm +
>harddrive, a cooler would be a good idea, but if your drive is less than
>7200rpm, it's really not so necessary.
>
>Nolan Darilek wrote:
>>
>> I'm looking at the PIII 500's listed at
>> http://216.74.5.24/cpus.html. Basically, I'm not sure which one to
>> get. I've eliminated the one with retail packaging for $276, I really
>> don't care for that.
>>
>> So, I need to decide between the one with the fan, or the OEM version
>> with only the tray. My case seems to have a fan inside, but will I
>> need another fan for the PIII? Also, I'm planning to buy a 27 gig
>> drive, and I was also told that I'd need another fan to cool this
>> one. Basically, I'm curious about this. Are there fans specific to
>> different types of hardware? Until today I thought that there were
>> only the case fans for cooling everything.
>>
>> So, should I be looking for other fans? Should I purchase the PIII
>> with the fan or without? And, if I should be looking for a fan to cool
>> the 27 gig drive, what, specifically, should I look for?
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