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- From: hwrvo@kato.lahabra.chevron.com (W.R. Volz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Leaving machine on 24hrs??
- Message-ID: <8794@lhdsy1.lahabra.chevron.com>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 20:14:44 GMT
- References: <2B2D2A03.23733@news.service.uci.edu> <1992Dec15.062600.8054@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
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- In article <1992Dec15.062600.8054@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>, kotsines@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Tom Kotsines) writes:
- |> 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.
- |>
- |> [/]
- Just a something I heard from a system manufacturer. If you want a
- second fan he recommends a case fan, not a fan on the CPU. Why, you ask.
- The CPU fans are cheap. If they fail, you won't know it since you can't
- hear it. The non-working fan will now impede the air flow over the CPU,
- defeating the purpose of ALL the fans in the case.
-
- Just something to think about.
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