Berkeley CSUA MOTD:Entry 38052
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2005/6/9-12 [Computer/HW/CPU] UID:38052 Activity:nil
6/8     I recently bought Via Samuel 2 based motherboard to use for my
        firewall.  There is a little fan mounted on the cpu and I was
        wondering if I could disconnect it and stick a bigger 80 mm or
        120 mm fan on top of the cpu and run the system safely. The
        current fan is a bit loud and I want to make the system as
        quiet as possible.  I'm open to other suggestions as well. tia.
        \_ Do you know exactly which processor is on your motherboard?
           Browsing the Via website, it seems that the Samuel 2 core is in
           both the low end of the Eden family and the slowest C3.  The
           Eden dissipates less than 7W, and you should just use a passive
           heatsink.  (The slowest Edens dissipate less than 5W and should no
           t even require a heatsink.)  The Samuel 2 C3 dissipates 13W and
           should require active cooling, but you can probably swap in any
           fan and it will work fine.  (By way of comparison, I have been
           running a 1GHz Celeron dissipating probably 20W fanless for 3 years
           now, and I have only had heat related failures on 3 or 4 days in
           that period.)
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