OT: processor fan question

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--- Vaughn Treude <vltreude at deru.com> wrote:

> Hello everyone:
> Here's a hardware question for you.  I have a
> machine running a 900 MHz
> Athlon.  Its processor fan is making lots of noise
> and sounds like it's
> about to die.  I tried to find a new Socket A-style
> heat sink at Fry's
> but they didn't have this ancient piece of hardware.
>  On the good side,
> the dying fan on this heat since is a standard size
> (60 mm), and is
> fastened to the heat sink with screws.  Is there any
> I shouldn't just
> replace the fan with a new one?  The reason I ask is
> because the old fan
> has weird blades - smaller than on a standard fan,
> and more of them. 
> The new fan, however, seems to blow much more air
> than the old one does
> (this was with its back to the floor, to simulate
> the restriction of the
> heat sink.) My theory is that the smaller blades may
> make the cooling
> more uniform, but I don't know if a 900 MHz
> processor is all that hot
> that I even have to worry about it.
> Vaughn
> 



I like you, had a 'fan' available. BUT it didn't fit,
I just used a piece of angle and two bolts. My
processor is low in the case and that worked for mine.
It isn't touching the heat sink, but then a k62-350
machine doesn't produce as much heat, but it works to
keep it from slowing waaay down to about a 286's speed.

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