Amazing volcano 9 keeps CPU alive for weeks with dead fan!!!!

[JoT]

What, you held a hs down for 15 minutes? Your hand must have been pretty bad after that. I've had celerons live for some hours with no hs fan, stock cooler, and only psu, one output and one intake fan.

Back a couple years ago when I was still quite a n00b to more advanced computer stuff, I let a friend borrow my old 433MHz Celeron so he'd have a rig for a while; this processor lacked a HSF, and, in my naiévity(sp), told him it would run fine without it. Guy runs the cpu for weeks, no problems.