I have a used SuperChassis 502L-200B- SC502L-200B | 1U | Chassis | Products | Super Micro Computer, Inc.
I want to gut out the the mini-itx motherboard, and replace with a 9.6 x 9.6 micro atx motherboard that I already have, together with the Pentium G4400 processor. This will replace my old firewall.
I have a few concerns: Cooling, and the Control Panel.
I am almost sure the following fan is good enough to cool the processor
https://www.dynatron.co/product-page/k2.
I'm worried about the noise. This will be sitting on an open bookshelf, where my switch, modem, will be situated. Will I notice very loud noise? I'm ok if I stand beside it and hear fan, but not when 1 foot away.
The second thing I'd like to achieve is to use the front control panel. I will be using a cheap Asus motherboard, with Realtek lan card onboard. I want to disregard the lan card, and get a 2 port Gigabit NIC (intel), pcie. I plan to get a pcie riser cable to achieve this. But I want the LEDs to work. But Supermicro seems to have a proprietary cable for this. Any ideas? Also, is there any way to have the LEDs for NIC get input from the Intel NIC I will be using? This will make everything look cool
I want to gut out the the mini-itx motherboard, and replace with a 9.6 x 9.6 micro atx motherboard that I already have, together with the Pentium G4400 processor. This will replace my old firewall.
I have a few concerns: Cooling, and the Control Panel.
I am almost sure the following fan is good enough to cool the processor
https://www.dynatron.co/product-page/k2.
I'm worried about the noise. This will be sitting on an open bookshelf, where my switch, modem, will be situated. Will I notice very loud noise? I'm ok if I stand beside it and hear fan, but not when 1 foot away.
The second thing I'd like to achieve is to use the front control panel. I will be using a cheap Asus motherboard, with Realtek lan card onboard. I want to disregard the lan card, and get a 2 port Gigabit NIC (intel), pcie. I plan to get a pcie riser cable to achieve this. But I want the LEDs to work. But Supermicro seems to have a proprietary cable for this. Any ideas? Also, is there any way to have the LEDs for NIC get input from the Intel NIC I will be using? This will make everything look cool