Okay without a case fan?

[DeadlyPilot]

I have a PC being used in an office that only has a CPU fan. I figured since the PC should shut off if the CPU overheated, I should be fine for short term. However, I forgot about things like the north and south bridge, along with some other things on the motherboard that might get hot. Are those also monitored by the BIOS on the PC? I can't install a fan because I'm across the country ATM. 

[Changis]

computer specs? 

south/north bridges are a thing of the past, in the last few years some of this was integrated into the CPU and thew rest rebranded to "chipset"
if your computer is pretty old and actually has a north/south bridge, it probably won't have any speedstep technology, so the cpu can burn up.. you should change it anyway as the cheapest celeron probably outperforms it by a mile

otherwise it depends a bit on usage.. if you max it out then you need better cooling, if it's just "easy" tasks like surfing and writing, you could probably go passive with the right cooler and case

but essentially, if you dfont stress it too hard, it should be fine but without the computer specs i cant say for sure

[DrMikeNZ]

It is unlikely to be an issue. The motherboard components output a relatively low amount of heat which can be dissipated passively.

[Changis]

3 minutes ago, DrMikeNZ said:

It is unlikely to be an issue. The motherboard components output a relatively low amount of heat which can be dissipated passively.

actually, come to think of it (it was a long time ago i handled a pc with a north and southbridge) i don't think those cpu's ever got really hot.. i remember the small square heatshinks with janky small fans and that infuriating clip..

[KenjiUmino]

22 minutes ago, Changis said:

actually, come to think of it (it was a long time ago i handled a pc with a north and southbridge) i don't think those cpu's ever got really hot.. i remember the small square heatshinks with janky small fans and that infuriating clip..

omg ... sounds like technology from the 90's ... 40mm fans on a pentium

[DeadlyPilot]

34 minutes ago, Changis said:

computer specs? 

south/north bridges are a thing of the past, in the last few years some of this was integrated into the CPU and thew rest rebranded to "chipset"
if your computer is pretty old and actually has a north/south bridge, it probably won't have any speedstep technology, so the cpu can burn up.. you should change it anyway as the cheapest celeron probably outperforms it by a mile

otherwise it depends a bit on usage.. if you max it out then you need better cooling, if it's just "easy" tasks like surfing and writing, you could probably go passive with the right cooler and case

but essentially, if you dfont stress it too hard, it should be fine but without the computer specs i cant say for sure

Off the top of my head I remember it being an APU. Not sure if that helps. So how old was the last chipset with a "north and south bridge"?

[Changis]

3 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

omg ... sounds like technology from the 90's ... 40mm fans on a pentium

40mm fans? sounds like a noctua D15 compared to some of the 386 and 486 ones

[Changis]

2 minutes ago, DeadlyPilot said:

Off the top of my head I remember it being an APU. Not sure if that helps. So how old was the last chipset with a "north and south bridge"?

correct me if im wrong, but i think that changed with the indtroduction of the i series processors from Intel

[Changis]

1 minute ago, Changis said:

correct me if im wrong, but i think that changed with the indtroduction of the i series processors from Intel

 For Intel Sandy Bridge and AMD Accelerated Processing Unit processors introduced in 2011, all of the functions of the northbridge reside on the CPU,^[4] while AMD FX CPUs still require external northbridge and southbridge chips.

[KenjiUmino]

3 minutes ago, Changis said:

40mm fans? sounds like a noctua D15 compared to some of the 386 and 486 ones

 ... this is what a 40mm fan looks like ... they do look that tiny ... they later moved to 50 or 60mm on socket 7 and socket A just to come right back to 40mm on the pentium II

[Changis]

Just now, KenjiUmino said:

 ... this is what a 40mm fan looks like ... they do look that tiny ... they later moved to 50 or 60mm on socket 7 and socket A just to come right back to 40mm on the pentium II

i was thinking 40mm tall  slept too little last night

[KenjiUmino]

5 minutes ago, Changis said:

i was thinking 40mm tall  slept too little last night

haha ... they had those as well ... 

 

[Changis]

3 minutes ago, KenjiUmino said:

haha ... they had those as well ... 

 

there was nothing quite like waking up on weekends, fire up the old 486 66mhz dx2 with its "jet turbines with rocks thrown into them" sounding harddrives andgetting your gaming on with classic "pixel graphics" and awesome adlib music.. ahh those were the days