It's absolutely possible. Trade it in to a Pentium G3220T selling for $40 shipped on eBay, then it can be passively cooled.The stock heatsink isn't designed for passive cooling, but as long as there is some case airflow it will probably at least boot to an OS.
What are you trying to accomplish?
Zero noise? You can get VERY quiet without requiring zero fans if you pick fans carefully and are willing to mess with their speeds/voltages.
No moving parts? That's going to be quite hard and you're not likely to be able to do it with a big-core chip without a fancy case and fancy heatsink to go with it.
is HIGHLY dubious advice. Applying more thermal paste doesn't result in better transport of thermal energy. It creates an additional physical layer that heat has to be conducted through, an additional layer which has worse conductivity than any of the metals involved. You want enough thermal paste so there isn't an air gap between the IHS and the heatsink, but you don't want to slather on thermal paste like peanut butter.he would need to apply TONS of thermal paste in it
You're right, forgot about that. Regarding thermal paste, just put in acceptable amount, but it depends on the quality of material it uses. Some thermal paste is thick grey like a rock, while some is very watery and liquid. Anyone know which one is better?This though:
is HIGHLY dubious advice. Applying more thermal paste doesn't result in better transport of thermal energy. It creates an additional physical layer that heat has to be conducted through, an additional layer which has worse conductivity than any of the metals involved. You want enough thermal paste so there isn't an air gap between the IHS and the heatsink, but you don't want to slather on thermal paste like peanut butter.
It's absolutely possible. Trade it in to a Pentium G3220T selling for $40 shipped on eBay, then it can be passively cooled.
In case he really wants to keep the 53W G3220, he would need to apply TONS of thermal paste in it, and set the power option to passive from active in Windows.
It's absolutely possible. Trade it in to a Pentium G3220T selling for $40 shipped on eBay, then it can be passively cooled.
In case he really wants to keep the 53W G3220, he would need to apply TONS of thermal paste in it, and set the power option to passive from active in Windows.
The question wasn't "which chip should I switch to to do passive cooling", the question was "is it possible to passively cool this chip".
I appreciate you pointing out the T-series chips though, that may be useful information for the OP, to sketch out some other options.
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he would need to apply TONS of thermal paste in it
is HIGHLY dubious advice. Applying more thermal paste doesn't result in better transport of thermal energy. It creates an additional physical layer that heat has to be conducted through, an additional layer which has worse conductivity than any of the metals involved. You want enough thermal paste so there isn't an air gap between the IHS and the heatsink, but you don't want to slather on thermal paste like peanut butter.