OT: processor fan question

[Scott]

Hey Vaughn,

Socket A fans are still easy to find, although you may need to hunt for 
them a bit.  If Fry's doesn't have them, I have seen them at Best Buy 
and CompUSA.  It may also be that there is simply too must dust built 
up.  It's something I've noticed more in the desert regions than in 
other regions of the country - it simply gets dustier here quicker than 
anyplace else.  With that out of the way, a can of compressed air might 
do the trick as the 'noise' is usually the blades knocking against 
something, such as a piece of lint.

-Scott

Vaughn Treude 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
>
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