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- Oct 25, 2001
Anybody have some hard data or personal experience to lend me? I ask because I was reading here at tom's hardware about several KT266A mobos with only passive heat sinks on their chipsets and I now am wondering why there's a fan on so many of 'em, like mine for instance. I pulled mine off when I got it and replaced the small off-center dab of white goo with as2 cuz I thought it'd help with oc'ing the bus and keeping it stable, but was this even worth the trouble? I had an old PII mobo with the venerable greenie on it but have seen nothing but fans since (mostly) and now there are all these boards with passively cooled chipsets popping up. Anybody know anything about this? Can I rip the fan off and use a passive HS?