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On Tuesday 16 December 2003 17:16, Patrick Moon wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-12-16 at 15:30, Alex Bame wrote:
> <snip>
>
> > and the Asus board will run a tad quieter due to
> > the fact that the northbridge is passivly cooled.
>
> </snip>
>
> Not only is the noise level lower BUT you also have one less point of
> failure. I know that it probably seems like a irrelevant point... but
> those little fans die "a lot". So if the board is designed to be
> passively cooled and you ADD a fan to it your that much BETTER
> off...since if it were to die you would be no worse off then how the
> manufacturer designed it to be.
>
> just my 2 cents...
>
> Patrick Moon
Good point. I've replaced the little fan twice now and already this new mb is
starting to make noise on bootup. pita... Might just dig around my junk
drawer and find an old heat sink and do away with the fan.
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