Cooling old Pentium

[Guest]

Hi, I am currently building a Linux Router with Coyote Linux. Everything is working great but my old Pentium I 200 MMX is kinda loud at night.

Is it possible to cool the old Pentium with only a passive cooler? Which one would you use?

 

[wapaaga]

yeh i have a friend that has a 200 mmx with no fan on the heat sink

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[HonestJhon]

yeah, you can run it with no fan.
what you can do tho, is get a QUIET 80mm fan, and put that in the case in the front fan holder spot. that will get some air blowing across the heatsink, and keep it cool...
but you should be able to run it with no fan...


-DAvid

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[HonestJhon]

in fact, if you buy an athlon heatsink, and take the fan off of it, that will cool it VERY well.
i have an overclocked k6-2 350 running at 450, with a retail xp1600+ heatsink/fan on it.
i stopped the fan for 5 minutes with no problems.
the heatsink barely got warm......
with the fan on, the heatsink is pretty cold.
and this is an overclocked k6-2! and i think a stock k6-2 runs hotter than a pentium 1

-DAvid

-Live, Learn, then build your own computer!-

 

[Crashman]

Dell and Compaq used to put huge passive heatsinks on them. You could get a tall Athlon cooler and pull the fan as suggested, or find an old oversized heatsink

What's the frequency, Kenneth?