Tech Support Forum - View Single Post - can i take off the fan on top of my processor?

**Fox** · 12-20-2004, 03:03 PM

Link works fine here. Taking the fan off= bad idea. If you're worried about noise, I'd remove any case fans before I'd remove the processor fan, because if you do, you'll almost certainly be asking for a dead CPU.

12-20-2004, 03:03 PM	#5 (permalink)
Fox TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: NJ Posts: 7,752 OS: XP Pro, CentOS My System	Link works fine here. Taking the fan off= bad idea. If you're worried about noise, I'd remove any case fans before I'd remove the processor fan, because if you do, you'll almost certainly be asking for a dead CPU.