As a comparasion I can tell you that in my Pentium4 @ 2.5 GHz system the cpufan stands still almost the whole time. It only starts occasionally, and then it runs slow in like 30 sec. It is the most quiet system I've ever had, I like it alot :-) You can touch and feel the temperature on the cooler, if it burns you need active cooling (read system- or cpufan) or a bigger passive cooler. > > > 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? > > > tino -- 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