Passive cooling a Pentium III

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Published on 2010-04-27T02:17:11Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 2:23 UTC
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Looking at running pfSense on an old P3 866Mhz. It's noisy, I'd like to passively-cool it, downclocking is ok as this is more than enough horsepower for my needs at home. Obviously I'm cheaping out here: wonder if I bigger heatsink will do and how much case flow I need (it's in a standard mid-tower ATX case).

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