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Old 09-11-2006, 04:04 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by dragon2309 View Post
if you only see 2 degrees increase then that wont be a problem, just watch out, if you leave it on for a while, the fan may die on you because the bearings will get shatered, if it dies you WILL have heat issues
the bearins will hold for a while.. im not so much concerned about that.. however, the vibration does. i would replace the CPU fan, because with a bit of bad lcuk, the vibration looses the heatsink from the CPU,.. and thats bad buisness
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