PII fan?

[rwbrick]

Curiosity (well, mainly) question: Everything I read says without a heatsink and an embedded fan, the processor chip can burn up in less than a minute. Is this referring to just the latest (well, say PIII, maybe, and beyond) CPUs. I seem to recall PII-233MHz with a fair-sized heatsink, but NO fan. Can anyone verify this?

Thanks.

 

[kmcferrin]

Typically you need both a heatsink and fan (at least since the days of the original Pentium). However, I have seen some systems where they've had larger heatsinks and no fan (on certain Compaq models) and not had a problem. Also, today there is a wide array of high performance heatsinks that we didn't have 4-5 years ago in the days of the Pentium II. I would think that with a sufficiently large heatsink on the CPU you would be OK, especially if the heatsink were directly in the path of one of the system fans.

 

[rwbrick]

kmcferrin,

Thanks for the helpful cogent info.

 

[paparazi]

rwbrick
Historically fans were introduced in the early PII MMX days, from about PII 233 onwards although many early Celerons didn't have a fan until they reached over the 333mhz mark.
At that time some manufactures chose passive, others fitted a fan, from 350mhz practically everything had a fan.

There were exceptions depending on manufacturer.

Obviously from that point there was just too much heat for a passive to manage.

Martin


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[micker377]

I have a Dell (customer through it out), that has a P4. Large passive heatsink, covered by a plastic chute ending at a fan mounted on the case. Big, ugly, but works!

 

[paparazi]

micker377
Typical Dell layout, but hardly passive if a fan with couling is directing air onto it. lol.
I guess that depends on interpretation.
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[mainegeek]

rwbrick,
I didn't start seeing fans until around the AMD K-5 and Cyrix 133. The PII was the first that I saw with just a heatsink (the size of a brick) since the Pentium 75.

I think the first PII I saw with a fan was the 266.
I think the celeron 300A was the one we use to fan and over clock as well.

It has been a long time and I may be wrong about some/all of this so don't take me as fact.