[rescue] This Just In: HP to buy Compaq

[Kurt Huhn]

> > They run relatively cool (as far as intel processors go), don't require
> > strange cooling fans (a heatsink and some measure of airflow through the
> > case is usually fine),
>
> That's not true at all.  Indeed the PPro was one of the first Intel
> processors that really does require a fan.  Any model running at 200MHz
> or more, particularly with more cache but even with just 256kb, is in
> dire need of at least a honkin' big heat sink, and probably a fan too.

My dual PPro Compaq Proliant 800 has no fans on the heatsink.  The heatsink
ain't even all that grand.  I'll defer to the Compaq engineers on this one -
because I am a drooling idiot when it comes to thermal dynamics...

Kurt