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Have anyone tried running a AMD K6-2 366Mhz without a CPU fan?
Will it do fine with thermal grease and a heatsink?
If you never tried it, then I would appreciate you keep your comment to yourself.
I would not suggest doing that, but you might get away with it. If you do that I would get a temp program and watch temps very closely. You might find that it runs fine when you start it up, but after an hour or so after intense use it might get real hot and fry on you.
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You can get a cheap HSF and thermal grease at Radio Shack to fit that CPU.
If the computer means anything to you, why mess around?
If, on the other hand, you really don’t care, why are you asking in this forum?
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Well, I seen Pentium Pro 200 do fine with just heatsinks, but on the other hand these are no Pentiums huh?
Well, I just figured thier Socket 7 and they wouldn't run that hot. Hopefully warm, but not hot. 366Mhz isn't all that fast.
I have plenty of CPU fans, but I want it to be silent that is why I want to remove it.
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I think you will be ok as long as you have good case ventilation 80mm fan sucking air in with a 80mm sucking air out.
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I once had a pentium II 500mhz. The fan bust when my brother was using the computer.
He didnt know the fan had failed until that little p II Fried itself!Time scale ... He was only on the computer for 80 minutes!!!
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The ATX power supplies with 2 fans were designed for this very thing, moving air over a heatsink. Mind you, they are as rare as hen's teeth nowadays. I've supplied many Compaq 350 PII's that run OK with only heatsinks, I wouldn't build one but they did. Many a Cyrix 200 has operated for long periods with the fan dead and no problems. I think the answer is - why tempt fate?
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why tempt fate?
Because it's fun.I have a K6-III 400MHz. Maximum temp. is 35 °C at full load.
I just set the freq. to 250MHz (2.5 x 100).
After disconnecting the CPU-fan the temp. went from 27 °C to 33 °C in 5 minutes while doing nothing. Then I reconnected the fan.I don't want to try it at full speed.
Maybe with a very big heatsink it works.
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Tell you what...why don't you just go ahead and try it...and after you replace the CPU
post back in here as to how long it lasted
before it cracked?Let's get up a pool...put me down for 2.25 hours.
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I have a K6-2 550 on an Asus P5A w/just thermal grease and cheap heatsink and have had no problems. I actually accidentally discovered this when i was working in there and forgot to the plug the fan back in. 3 weeks later it started beeping and i couldn't figure out what it meant. That's when i realized it. Added some thermal grease, beep's gone, runs great!
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