How hot is a pentium 2?

Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

My dad gave me his old P2 computer which he didn't have much use for anymore.
Now I'm turning it into a webserver \o/
The question is how much cooling the 300mhz cpu really needs, could I dump the fan to make it really quiet?

clerus21 · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject:

is it slot 1?
I used to have a slot 1 pentium 2 300/350 mhz i think.. and i really needed the fan.. couse it used to overheat frecuently..
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Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

slot 1? is that the socket or something?
The install cd identifies it as a klamath.
Ok, so yours was overheating.
What's the thing called in english that you can use instead of a fan?
Metall-object which maximizes CPU to air contact.
Could that be enough?

clerus21 · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 6:48 pm Post subject:

mm actually my first language is spanish jej and that thing u mean is a "disipador" jej
slot 1 is a socket and the cpu is inside some kind of plastic box :S dont know how to explain you..
if it is not slot 1 then i dont know but i think u should not take the fan away.. it is risky
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Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

It's called "kylfläns" in swedish ;-)

I guess I'll keep it then, it not very important to keep it silent anyway.

chunderbunny · Posted: Sat Aug 26, 2006 11:14 pm Post subject:

I think you are talking about a heatsink.

Anyway, it is just about possible to run a P2 with no fan provided that it's not particularly fast (less than 200MHz) and you have a really big heatsink. I successfully ran a PC as a router underclocked to 166MHz with no fan for a couple of years.

Letharion · Veteran Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 1344 Location: Sweden

Ah, heatsink, yeah. Googled for pictures, that's it :-)

Hmmm, ok. Then I now I may have the option. Thanks a lot both of you :-)

phatscum · Posted: Mon Aug 28, 2006 8:40 pm Post subject:

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i000 · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2005 Posts: 28

my Slot 1 P2 266 has no active cooling just the standard heatsink, and it is moderatly warm even after compiling for days (be prapared an patient)

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trupoet · Apprentice Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 160

yah my Slot 1 P3 600MHz runs pretty hot but it just has a little dinky 3dfx gpu cooler papercliped on it lol.

has worked like that for years