[plug] Socket A cooling recommendations

[Ben Jensz]

Craig Ringer wrote:

>
> OTOH, I recently had a CPU fan fail in one of the 1 GHz AMD Duron 
> machines here at work. The user had commented a couple of days 
> previously that the machine seemed quieter, and asked if I'd done 
> anything. I assumed that was just a matter of a fan that might've been 
> a bit unstable starting to behave - something like that.
>
ROFL... I've had the same experience.  All of our desktop computers here 
are Athlons, well a couple are now Celeries after killing the Athlons.

> I found out why it was quiet 2 days later, when the user commented 
> they'd had a couple of crashes. Things smelled hot when I sat down at 
> the workstation. Well... the fan had stabilised all right, at about 
> 110 degrees centigrade (according to BIOS) - fan not spinning at all. 
> It was so hot I had to let it stand for 15 minutes before I could 
> safely replace the cooler.
>
Yeah, I burnt my hand on one that had done the same.  Had a nice pattern 
of red burn marks on my hand for a couple of days afterwards.


/ Ben


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