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- From: kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Leaving machine on 24hrs??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.062600.8054@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: 15 Dec 92 06:26:00 GMT
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- In article <2B2D2A03.23733@news.service.uci.edu> eapu168@orion.oac.uci.edu (Lee Furnival) writes:
- >I am in the process of advising someone in the purchase of a new pc and
- >have a question regarding extending the life of the chips. We will be
- >getting a clone 486DX-33. There are 2 cooling fans in a mid-tower case
- >and I am going to install a fan/heatsink on the CPU. Question:
- >
- Well I'm sure your system will be quite cool with 3 fans on it, but I'm not
- sure if you really need that many. Unless you plan to have all your card
- slots filled and many drives, your system probably won't get hot. I have
- a 486/50 with 2 fans in a tower case and the air coming out the back is
- never noticibly hotter than room temp. Plus you'll be wasting a lot more
- electricity if you do plan to leave it on 24 hrs/day.
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