My NB fan bearings on my KT7A-Raid have finally decided to throw the towel in after 2 1/2 years of uptime (had the board around 3 years), it's making rather a lot of noise, as you can imagine... Well compared to any other system in my room At the moment I've got a Tbird 1000 (always reads 999Mhz ) running at stock in there (10x100). I'm thinking of just removing the HSF and running the NB bare... I'm not going to be overclocking it in the forseeable future, it's a fileserver/UD cancer research cruncher... Will this be possible, anyone had any experience of running the KT133a chipset without a heatsink? I mean the heatsink on there is crap anyway, I don't really think it does much. It certainly doesn't look like it does Temps at the moment: I can always ASTE a passive aluminium heatsink on there, but that means downtime... which I don't really want, if I can just whip the old hsf off and leave it at that i'd be more than happy... Cheers
The kt133a at home has no fan on it at all, just whip the fan off and leave the heatsink on and it should be fine...... Wouldn't wanna risk no sink on it at all tho...
Without a sink it crashes the pc. Before i bought epoxy i AS'd a socket 7 heatsink to it and hoped air pressure would hold it. It did, but it fell off a couple of times and promply crashed the computer. You can run it passively, but not with the standard sink though.
you need to download webtemp (search google for it, cant remember the site off the top of my head) and it calibrates itself with MBM5. then you need to set an ftp server for it to upload with, etc it's pretty simple from there on
