A friend recently purchased a new budget family PC from CompUSA, a Celeron
400, 64 mb ram, etc., but no name on it besides CompUSA.
I was helping him get it up and running when I noticed that in the bios, on
the page that shows fan rpm and system temperature, there appears to be no
CPU fan. It showed both fans rpm at 0, and the temperature was 149 F. We
didn't have time to open the case to check, but is this normal, to leave out
the cpu fan? Won't this kind of temperature lead to a shorter life? Next
time I'm over there I'll check to see if there is a fan and it's just not
connected.
I was just wondering if this is standard practice on budget computers, no
CPU fan.
Thanks,
Steve

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