CPU fan VERY VEYR Dustsy after 1 month

Not sure about the effect on CPU temp.

However, it will get dusty. How much depends on where you live and how often you vacuum your house etc.

Dust can make your fan less efficient, and increase the temp (It's really bad if you manage to wrap hairs, fabric and things around your fan). Dust causes friction if it gets in the ball berrings, which will slow your fan or cause fan failure, ending the life of your T-bird. But it isn't that likely. If you are worried about it you can find places that sell filters for computer cases. But really all you need is a good dusting and vacuum every so often.

At bus stations, busses stop. At train stations, trains stop. My desk has a work station. GO FIGURE!

True good point the processor isn't the only thing affected, especially if you have hard drive cooling dust will build up there.

At bus stations, busses stop. At train stations, trains stop. My desk has a work station. GO FIGURE!

no it won't raise temperature but you might want to blow it out w/compressed air every couple months to prolong the life of your fan.

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"648kb is all the space anyone will ever need!"

Bill Gates, 1980s

Did it comes with dust included?

It can't be good for it then.

With all the money you saved, you should be able to buy a new HSF every month.

Its all part of that price/performance thingie.

Since AMD doesnt have any thermal isuues, I weouldnt worry about it. just ignore it and hopefully it goes away.

I know dust can be evil nasty stuff inside of a computer.

My old P133 one day started detecting it's memory as 96MB instead of 128MB. (It had four 32MB EDO SIMMS.) I thought this was an odd thing. Then later it got worse and started detecting only 64MB of memory.

I knew that either something must be wrong, or else there was a memory gremlin sneaking into my system and eating my SIMMS. When the glue traps didn't catch anything, I knew something must be wrong.

I opened my case and it really didn't look all that dusty. I mean I do have my case well ventilated and use the foam filters on it.

But sure enough, after blowing compressed air all around and having an hour long coughing fit (I hadn't taken the time to ensure proper ventilation in the room when I started the cleaning process), my memory went back up to 128MB.

So the moral of the story is, "Dust is bad, unless it's hiding something worse."

- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.

Fugger,

I was just given a Pentium 200. It was from our data collection department, and was built by those guys. The Pentium had a heat sink, with a brushless fan "hacked" onto it.

The reason they gave it to me was because it no longer worked. The fan (not ball bearing) had failed, and it seems that the system locks up after a short while (3 - 5 minutes).

No sweat! Just replace the fan with a good ball bearing HSF unit. Guess what? It still doesn't work. It will sometimes boot, then freeze. Mostly, it does not even post. When it does post, and I can get into the BIOS, it freezes in about 3 minutes.

Looks like when the fan failed, the processor did as well.

Now, this was not built right to begin with. The HSF that was assembled was an abomination. But for all of the thermal protection, the CPU is fried just the same. To be fair, we have no idea how long the system ran without the benefit of the fan. It may have been days, it may have been seconds. No way to tell.

If your fan fails, it seems that thermal protection may not be enough. Of course, you may say that this is an exception to the rule. It might be, but, that Intel chip is still dead.

The motherboard works fine with a Cyrix 686 MX in place of the Pentium.

So how well does a 'faster' chip like that perform in the antiquated motherboard bus? I've been thinking of stripping out my P133 and putting in a socket converter and a faster chip. But is the performance actually worth the cost when I already have a Celeron 500?

I mean if the system won't perform near the Celeron's level even with a wiz chip in it, then maybe I'll just leave it as a P133. It still works for Quake1 quite well. I just wanted to be able to set up a Quake3 game between the Celeron and the ex-P133.

- Sanity is purely based on point-of-view.

I remember playing quake on my cyrix 166mx.


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No way! My voodoo2 served me well. (GLQuake)


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Both!

Did you know the original quake engine supported shadows and lighting (to an extent). can't remember the commands to use them though. but they slow the game down, at least on a 166mx.


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The Voodoo2 was faster then the Banshee, using two pass texturing to the Banshees single pass. Not that it matters, but I'll still bet you were choppy above 320 x 240.

No, I used to run at 640x480. It was quite smooth except when you have 4+ bad guyz in the room, with rocket fire and lightning bolts. It dropped to something like below 20fps.


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"I have reversed the direction of my fans to suck air away from the CPU and that keeps the dust off"

How does that work? The dust is in the air, right? Does it make any difference if you pull the air across the heatsink or push it?