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Can I cool my cpu like this??

Nathan cole
By Nathan cole
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Hi people, I have an old pentium 4 Northwood 3.00ghz machine and the fan on it is way too loud to even type, I’ve replaced the paste, cleaned dust etc and I think it’s just a loud fan,I can’t monitor the temperate because my motherboard can’t detect temps, (dell optiplex 170l large form factor) I’m trying to cool it with a fan on the side of it, I will later fix it onto the heat sink but I want to know if it will be suitable, below if a short YouTube video of it here;

(Edit) I accidentally put 2 videos on this topic, both are the same though

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Well it certainly looks fine. Presumably that fan is a static pressure optimized fan? If you don't know, attach a picture of the fan not spinning.

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thats fine, i have done worse things to P4s and they are fine.

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