[OT] Re: [TriLUG] cpu overheat

[Brian Weaver]

The last question/comment had me dazed for a moment... That is the whole
point of the fan, to help with the heat transfer from the heatsink to
the gasesous substance we call "air." Granted, without the fan there is
a certian amount of thermal tranfer between the sink and the air which
may be enough when the processor is running "cool."

My problem is that I tend to think of fans the same way as I think of
hard drives. If you spin it up and down often enough there is more wear
than if you just left it at a single constant speed the entire time.
Granted I'm not a mechanical engineer so this is just my opinion,
nothing more.


> ps: what would the problem be with not running the fan when the chip
> is running cool? Its not going to make it colder like a peltier will,
> it'll just dissipate the heat that is produced... ?
> 
> 

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