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Do I need cooling for this Processor?

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arock1_3

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I'm building a PC for my sister and planning on using a AMD Mobile 2400+ there is not going to be any o'cing or gaming or anything for that matter, just office work and to access the internet that is it. Is there a need for a heatsink and fan? I don't think so but I could be wrong. Opinions and suggestions please :D
 
you should at least have a heatsink on it, not a big one just a small one also you prolly dont need a fan on it...like a laptop
 
Pretty sure you will.. Cant say for sure about a fan, but at least a heatsink.

I havn't seen a CPU run without a least a sink since the 286 days. Even my 386 had a HSF on it..

-scoob8000
 
Sounds good to me, I just wanted to make sure what was the right thing to do. I already have a hsf and fan for it, inexpensive though, but I'm just trying to keep the cost low for her. :D Just been a good brother not kissing ass, just good brother. :D :D :D
 
I have this processor in my parent's machine. This little TBred runs fairly hawt. Run it with at least the stock hsf. The MSI board that is in that box was claiming that the CPU was sitting between 50-60C (also claims that mobo temps are 14C, and it trips it's own temp alarms :p ). I made a ghetto hsf with a Stealth fan and it dropped a bit. Now running my old Aeroflow at 7V, and it's down to 45C.

Speaking of running without a hsf, the whole thing fell off of our old 133MHz P1. It would just rattle against the side of the case, and we couldn't figure out what was making the noise until we took the case cover off. Just hanging there by its power cord... The computer never crashed for the whole few weeks that it was running without cooling. Hell, we even stuck it back on with automotive blue silicone! It served as a backup box for the next year or two while we were sporting our "new" P3-550. :D

ps: You'll need some sort of a thermal interface material between the core and the heatsink. Cooling isn't optional anymore. ;)
 
There's no passive sink that will keep that cool unless you severly undervolt it. Get a cheapo quiet case fan that pushes ~30cfm for like 2 bucks.
 
arock1_3 said:
I'm building a PC for my sister and planning on using a AMD Mobile 2400+ there is not going to be any o'cing or gaming or anything for that matter, just office work and to access the internet that is it. Is there a need for a heatsink and fan? I don't think so but I could be wrong. Opinions and suggestions please :D
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Already told ya here...
http://forums.amd.com/index.php?showtopic=27663

MD
 
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