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Originally Posted by satanicoo
There are fanless heatsinks...
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Like the Zen Heatlane?
Interesting device - but it does require airflow over it (typically pulled over it by a power supply fan) and clearly states that it is just for running office apps and browsing the web.
IMHO, if you're going to limit what you're doing to that, why not build a system with a low-wattage CPU, like the Via C3? I've built at least a couple systems with 1G C3s that had heatsinks only (no fan) and were plenty fast enough for just office apps and browsing the web. As an added bonus, you're fine with a 150W power supply, so less heat being generated there as well. I vaguely remember that the C3s used around 8W. If you used an 800MHz processor, you could use a completely fanless setup (power supply was two parts - a "brick" and a DC-to-DC converter inside the case. I
think these may have actually come without a heatsink on the CPU (not sure - never built one of these).