The Sound of silence( cool computers)

[Tomas]

Can I run it without a CPU-fan, with just a heatsink?

Dont even try that... it will fry after a while. There is more silent coolers out there also, which still does a good job at cooling it down.

Though... if you underclock it and set it to lowest voltage... then it should work fine.. even my TB 1400 did if i clocked it down to 600mhz using lowest core voltage... i think it was 1.0-1.1 or something

And yeah... as EgonSpenglerUK said.. Via has some nice chips that run fine with just a small heatsink and they are cheap.. You get both miniatx motherboard with integreated audio, gfx, network for less than the price of a modern amd/intel cpu.

[Tomas]

Wolfe wrote:
Don't know about the AmigaOne PPC but, my son in-law has a Imac II with a 1 Ghz G4 cpu and it has no fan and a dinky heat sink.   My 450Mhz cube has a larger heat sink than his and it's really not that big, and has NO Fan! :-D

PPC is very different this way, they generate way less heat than the amd x86 cpus. Even a intel p1 clocked at higher clockspeeds than 133 should have a fan.

[Tomas]

have a 167Mhz Pentium with no fan, just sink . Runs fine

Sure, you can run it... but its definitely not healthy for it. You should atleast have some passive cooling, like case fans.