> ----- Original Message ----- > From: > To: > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:26 AM > Subject: [OT]: Active Cooling required for CELERON 333 ?? > > > > I bought a celeron 333 processor from a shop closing sale. > > This slot 1 processor board has only a passive aluminium cooler, but no > > fan on it. > > Does the celeron 333 processor need no fan to be cooled, is the passive > > cooler enough? > > thanks! > > tino > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Augusto Yipmantin - OA4CVT [SMTP:oa4cvt@EC-RED.COM] > Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 11:04 AM > To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU > Subject: Re: Active Cooling required for CELERON 333 ?? > > YOU NEED TO INSTALL THE FAN or you would be able to fry an egg over it ! > > Augusto, OA4CVT > It depends entirely on the heatsink, a Celeron 333 is perfectly capable of being passively cooled if the heatsink is big enough. They had a temperature monitoring diode on board IIRC so you should be able to monitor the core temperature from either in the BIOS setup screen or using a utility such as Motherboad Monitor. Mike -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics