Why Pentium 505

On Thu, 6 Jul 2006 06:23:47 +1000, "Rod Speed"

I suppose I should feel pity if you can't set a system up and expect more than a couple years inbetween fan failures?

Good quality CPU 'sink fans implemented with moderate RPM do not fail in two to three years. Just as one can buy a crap power supply with fradulent ratings, one could buy a crap fan with fradulent ratings, but when speaking of good quality fans, they are rated for 50-100K hours and there is no reasonable expectation that such a fan will fail within a decade.

In the end it boils down to your pretending to know what you're talking about vs actually having experience implementing high quality fans. Instead of accepting that you are not competent to select high quality components to directly address the problem, you seek a safety net to limit the damage your inepbreastude causes.

There is one quite limited scenario where good quality fans are more likely to fail prematurely (or rather, too great a variable to predict with specs), in very extreme environments such a desert sand, rock dust, certain industrial chemical environments where even a filtration system is ineffective or cost prohibitive. Such systems are pulled out of service on regular intervals instead of left running till the fans fail.