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Discussion in 'Hardware' started by relix, 12 Jan 2002.

  1. relix

    relix Minimodder

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    While reading some cooling posts on this forum, I thought back at the time back when we didn't need any sort of cooling for our PC's with 386 / 486 chips in it... Well, I don't know that time by myself but I have a 486 laying here with open case (a perfect PC to experiment with) and while running, I can actually touch the 486-chip... mmmmmmm how much lower will the costs be if a processor didn't made any heat.... that must be heaven ;)
     
  2. IsaacSibson

    IsaacSibson Banned

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    You give a little, you get a little....how many 486s would it take to match the speed of a single Athlon?

    Lots.

    Lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots.

    And a few more.

    The last passively cooled CPU I owned was a P90.

    Mind you....A Geforce 3 does not produce a great deal of heat, and that is a very, very complex processor...more complex than a P4 or an Athlon, by some way. Certainly a great deal more powerful than a 486, and you could easily passively cool it, if it were not stuck underneath a card in limited space (heat rises, but the chips go on the bottom of the card....sigh....ISA was the right way around). My GF3 is passively cooled, but I have a blowhole. Just proves that it can be done though, with appropriate airflow.
     
  3. relix

    relix Minimodder

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    not passivily cooled, but not cooled ;)
     
  4. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    last passively koooled PSU i had was a cyrix 66mhz :eek:

    how i long for a silent PC!!!
     
  5. Tim S

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    I remember the days of my 486 DX2 66, with the whole 8 megs of RAM :D

    It was passively cooled, altho it did have an ATX power supply with a fan in there... plus the hard drive made a hell of a crackle... we complain about todays harddrives being noisy, but that.... OMG it got annoying after about 5 minutes :)

    constant cackle cackle cackle :D
     
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    The 486 was passively cooled.

    It's just that the surface area of the packaging was enough, so no supplementary heatsink was required.

    If it hadn't been cooled at all, it would have melted....
     
  7. Tim S

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    So was the pentium, well the early ones were :p

    Cooooorrrrr the days of my 186... :D

    Takes me back a long long way.... ;)
     
  8. relix

    relix Minimodder

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    ooh, okay :)
     
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    Not to mention defying the second law of thermodynamics....:D
     
  10. Phil

    Phil What's a Dremel?

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    I have but one thing to say : Via C3

    There's a review on PC Powerzone....


    it does 933Mhz with passive cooling. Downside is it's not as fast as a 750 Duron. it does well for most things though.
     
  11. Fly

    Fly inter arma silent leges

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    my pIII 500 @ home has a heatsink but no fan!!! Runs fine, it's in a lian li PC-60 tho!!
     
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    Mmmm...That's a point. My mate's Dell PII 333 came with just an hooj heatsink and a case-fan, no fan on the CPU itself. Kinda like my GF3 now......:D
     
  13. Phil

    Phil What's a Dremel?

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    can you get a pic of that online Fly ?

    or describe the cooling in there....what intakes / exhausts, and what the heatsink on the P-III is
     
  14. RTT

    RTT #parp

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    just remembered - my p2 is passively cooled :D
    so quiet i have to look at the case LED to see if its on
     
  15. relix

    relix Minimodder

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    my p2 isn't passivly cooled
    it has a cooler on it, and it had to be replaced once

    would it worked without activly cooling? it's a PII 233
     
  16. Fly

    Fly inter arma silent leges

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    I'll post a pic as soon as I am at home for more than an Hour (two jobs are creating havoc with my Counterstrike skills!!!). I thought it was weird when I moved the stuff out of the Gateway box into the Lian-Li..."what? No fan?", saying that there was a hood that directed the warm air out of the case through the PSU fan. It works fine now without tho so the Lian-Li must be doing it's magic.
     
  17. cpemma

    cpemma Ecky thump

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    The Fujitsu Scenic D has a 1G P3 with no HS fan, but they duct airflow from a big HS straight to an inlet hole in the PSU. So the one fan does 2 jobs.

    Most Compaq have ducted psu fan cooling for the cpu.
     

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