Voluntary suppression of the fan, is it dangerous?

[Questioner]

Hi, I have an old computer that I recently hacked to use it as Media Center.
I removed some unnecessary metal parts, floppy drive, CD drive, 1 for 2 HDD and I have deliberately blocked the fan (with a pen ).

The volume of vacant housing is very large, the components (motherboard, hard drive and power) are spaced from each other and a piece of the box can be removed without problems.

However, I blocked the fan since it was extremely noisy and thus prevented the use of this PC as a Media Center (watching a movie next to a turbine is not very pleasant .

Is there a risk in the short or long term for components?

Thank you.

[Birdie]

hi

Short term, you damage your processor or even the motherboard, the computer will detect overheating and will shut off automatically when the critical value set in the BIOS (~ 75 ° C) of the motherboard will be damaged.

a long term, you see your processor motherboard.

and since it is a pentium 3, it is quite old, these processors heats a lot, hence the requirement for a fan on the radiator.

[deoWo]

The presence of a fan is required, but a P3 does not heat to temperatures frightening ...

No, what can be done is adding a series resistor of fan speed, and a processor underclocking not to overheat.

[SecRecy]

Should also know whether the fan of the trial or the case.
If this is the case, it is good, should be able to remove it. At worst, post a photo.