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Originally Posted by luciferase75
Deltona, no CPUs fry anymore. They throttle down. There isn't a single CPU out now by AMD or Intel that will fry if you remove the heatsink. Socket-A failures are long gone. In an office (or a bedroom) a silent fan is worth it's weight in gold. When you get a game going and noise doesn't matter anyways, it can speed up. Deekylie is most likely not an overclocker, so having a loud fan on a stock CPU is pointless.
I think Dee might be referring to the whole case as the "cpu", which is common for non-geeks. In that case, it could be a case fan Dee is looking for, which never work under thermal control because the air isn't hot enough (and if it is you're screwed) or it could actually be the cpu heatsink. Who knows? Dee will have to specify, and if that's not possible, take it to someone that knows what to do.
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I guess we will have to agree to disagree on that subject. I recently had an AMD Athlon smoke when the cooling fan stoped operating for a very short time. I was doing some webbrowsing when my computer started acting strange, then the motherboard temp warning came up on the screen, and then all went black. After replacing the cooling fan, i could never get the computer up and running again. daughtercard testing showed that the CPU was unresponsive, so i replaced it and all was back up and running in no time.