howto cooling mcx354a nic card

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Freebsd1976

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install a mcx354a nic in hp z230 sff , nic idle temperature is 67c ,i think this is a bit high and what to cooling nic, but the question is there is how to attach cooling fan on nic heat sink?
anyone try this before?
 

llowrey

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Check out my solution for a CX4: 100GbE Mellanox 180 USD. TL/: slim heatsink+fan and high temp zip-ties.

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It looks like your board only has 2 mounting holes for the heatsink so my solution might not work well.
 

Freebsd1976

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yes only two hole in the middle of heat sink ,try find other way to attach fan , those are i found on taobao,but don’t know which way is better
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the first is water cooling mount tool, the other two are additional graphic card cool
 
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Freebsd1976

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mget_temp_get.exe can get nic temperature , it include in mellanox winmft
 
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Where does it sit in the server? I've found PCI placement makes a big difference.

In a Cisco UCS 240 I have there are two PCI cards. One sits directly above a dual 40G NIC (generates a LOT of heat) and right now it's 31C. The Intel AIC card directly above it, they're a few cm apart is 14C.

The difference in the two cards is that the Intel AIC has space above it where air moves over from front to back from the case fans. The Optane under the AIC doesn't have as much room for airflow. So the air is trapped and warmer.

Before making modifications to the NIC I'd move the cards around and see if placement makes a difference.
 

Freebsd1976

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Nic install in a hp z230 sff workstation , which have one fan cooling cpu, in pci area there is no fan or airflow , so I need add additional fan attach to nic to cooling, I think in this z230 sff this the only way to cooling the nic
 

Freebsd1976

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finally directly attach an 6cm fan to heat sink , temprature drop from 68 to 42c, also buy a pci slot fan ,will report result the difference when it arrives