My board was about $200 from China and that seemed normal across many sellers, I’d love to know where I can get it for $130 since I’m trying to buy like 4-5 more.
My heatsinks were about 15/each from china, so that tracks.
Shipping from china for the board, 4 heatsinks, and 4 waterblocks, was less than $100 for 3-day air mail. It would be a lot cheaper (like $20) for the boat shipping but I just didn’t want to wait a month to get it.
I’m running mine now on air and it’s not really loud at all. I’m using some beefy 80x38mm fans I had lying around for testing, I just zip tied them to the heatsinks directly, and the board seems to run them at fairly low speed since it doesn’t need more. The GPUs are in the 40-50C range for temps. I will water cool them in the future since I bought the blocks too, I want the heat load to be more mobile, but I don’t see why you couldn’t use some noctuas or something also. Or 3D print some shrouds to duct air from some 120mm Noctua iPPCs or something. It’s not that much of an issue IMO. Since my uses are fairly low power and I’m power limiting for efficiency and power draw purposes anyway, I’m just gonna strap some more normal 80x25mm fans on air cooled setups and let temps be 60-70C. This might change if your workload will use all 300W of the TDP, but mine doesn’t.
My heatsinks were about 15/each from china, so that tracks.
Shipping from china for the board, 4 heatsinks, and 4 waterblocks, was less than $100 for 3-day air mail. It would be a lot cheaper (like $20) for the boat shipping but I just didn’t want to wait a month to get it.
I’m running mine now on air and it’s not really loud at all. I’m using some beefy 80x38mm fans I had lying around for testing, I just zip tied them to the heatsinks directly, and the board seems to run them at fairly low speed since it doesn’t need more. The GPUs are in the 40-50C range for temps. I will water cool them in the future since I bought the blocks too, I want the heat load to be more mobile, but I don’t see why you couldn’t use some noctuas or something also. Or 3D print some shrouds to duct air from some 120mm Noctua iPPCs or something. It’s not that much of an issue IMO. Since my uses are fairly low power and I’m power limiting for efficiency and power draw purposes anyway, I’m just gonna strap some more normal 80x25mm fans on air cooled setups and let temps be 60-70C. This might change if your workload will use all 300W of the TDP, but mine doesn’t.
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