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can my PC work without its fan?
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i dont really use it but to run music off of. im a MAC man.

i aint got 5.00 to go get a fan from radioshack and wondering if its so bad if i take it out of my PC......will it catch on fire is all i really care about.


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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: hecknotechno]
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As long as the fans on the PSU and CPU work and you're not running it for too long I don't see why it should be a problem. You'll know if it's a problem when it just starts resetting from overheating.

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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: hecknotechno]
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You risk destroying the processor if it's not cooled properly.

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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: Gumby]
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There is a HIGH risk for blowing your processor without a fan. Even without heat paste is a bad idea.


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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: hecknotechno]
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Nah its cool. The pc will just reboot or hang if it gets to hot. Just run it for a couple of hours and see if it crashes or not. Ran a geforce card without a fan for quite some time without incident aslong as didn't play games.


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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: Scarfmeister]
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I guess depends on how old the pc is. To my knowledge older ones don't have a cutoff.


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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: Psy Baba]
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Older PCs used to do different things if they were run for long without a fan/heatsink combo, especially when overclocked: Intel based machines would reboot, AMD machines would just freeze, and Cyrix...well nobody that I know ever ran a Cyrix OCed or without a fan, and if anyone did I'd like a copy of the pic of what used to be your desk :lol:

That's for computers in the mid-90's...before that you generally didn't even need a CPU fan, and sometimes not even a heatsink, and after that (late 90's to present) you NEED a heatsink and probably a fan too.

When the Athlon and PIII came out, they were supposed to include circuits to cut power in case of a fan/heatsink failure. Thing is, the AMD devices didn't work. Take the heatsink off of a running PIII and it will crash in about a second or so. Try that on a P4, and the computer won't even crash....it just keeps going chugging along at a lower clock rate (the P4's heat circuitry is nice).

Try that on an Athlon (before they fixed it) and you'll have the CPU burst into flame :eek:

But that should be fixed now :wink:

Here's a video Tom's Hardware made of just such a test:


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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: trendal]
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AMD:thumbdown: Let the mother fucker burn.

P4:thumbup:


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Re: can my PC work without its fan? [Re: trendal]
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Are you talking about a case fan or a processor fan?

There is a HUGE difference in between the two.


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