P2 233MHz cooling

jpsa · Post by **jpsa** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 10:43 am

I bought an old mobo and cpu to use has a gateway, the cpu is a p2 233MHz but the damn thing heats up a lot as it works with 2.7volt

the hs was the intel boxed one and is loud has hell. So I wanted to cool it down without much efort, I just removed the 40mm fan and replaced it with a 800rpm 90mm fan. solved!

these guys were always 1 step beind in cooling... I remember my P166 had a miniscule HS with a fan, it could be cooled with a medium sized HS and no fan...

pipperoni · Post by **pipperoni** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 2:43 pm

If your case has the ATX style layout where the PSU sucks air across the CPU, you might be able to get away with passive cooling if you install a large enough heatsink. I have seen a few Pentium I, Pentium II era designs with a passive setup.

Straker · Post by **Straker** » Wed Nov 03, 2004 11:52 pm

i think the stock fan was just out of paranoia - i even had a P133 that had a fan on its heatsink.

on the other hand, my ppro 200's stock cooler is just a passive heatsink, and the assumption with those is that they'll be on and doing stuff all the time, and on top of that they use like 2-3x as much power as any comparable PII/III.

alglove · Post by **alglove** » Thu Nov 04, 2004 2:53 pm

I know our old Dell Pentium II 266 computers at work had large passive heatsinks. The entire ATX case was cooled by a single 92mm fan at the back. The power supply was an OEM Fortron 200W or 235W (I do not remember which) with a single 80mm exhaust fan at the back, which probably did little to help cool the CPU.