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The fan on the motherboard is cooling the motherboard chipset (prob northbridge) and removing it is not a good idea unless you have confirmation or advice from others that you can do so. It's probably there for a reason, right? On the other hand, you could possibly successfully replace it with a heatsink. I had a Radeon 7200 video card on which I read that others had successfully unplugged the fan, so I did it as well. I wasn't playing any games or using any demanding video applications. I never had a problem with it. Maybe my case had sufficient airflow, whereas another case would not, and the card might have overheated. Every case is different. I've also noticed that a lot of video cards by different manufacturers sometimes use the exact same chipset, but one manufacturer adds a fan while another adds a heatsink. You'd have to ask the engineers why. Good luck! Larry On Sun, 16 Jan 2005 22:56:25 +0100, S�ren Dalsgaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to setup a mythtv box and most bits are in place but the > machine is somewhat noisy. I tried spraying a lubricant into the fan > on the CPU and the fan on some chip on the motherboard and that took > care of the worst bits.But I would prefer an even more quiet pc. > > My pc is an AMD Athlon 1.1GHz I've found that watching tv through the > pvr350 requires 3-5% cpu load so cutting those 1.1GHz in 3 or 4 should > not pose a real problem. > > The fan on the motherboard is a bit of a mystery to me - what does it > cool (yes a chip, but what chip and can I remove that fan too when I > underclock the pc)? > > Thanks for your input - it is valued! > > S�ren > _______________________________________________ > mythtv-users mailing list > [email protected] > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
