I have finished building a new home server using raid 6 with 8x3tb drives, using an LSI 9265-8i raid controller card. When I first fired up the system, just going into the LSI CTRL-H bios setup, after a few minutes the chip temperature of the LSI controller was HOT - so hot that I burned my finger touching the heat sink for 4 secs or so. This is of course with the case cover off. I did not capture what temperature the card bios reported, for I did not leave the system on that long - thinking something was hooked up wrong. Everything was hooked up correctly.
Did some www searches and on Newegg saw that some are also reporting that this board runs really hot. The board is passively cooled - there is no fan on the heat sink. But to be so hot as to actually burn my finger? Ok, I should have moved my finger off faster but I was simply surprised how hot it was.
I ended up attaching a 120mm fan (Noctua running full speed) to a bracket and placed it right next to the LSI board pointed right at it. With that, just booting into the bios I only detected a small amount of heat. Looking at the chip temp it was around 41c. With the system fully complete, closed up and running now 24/7 for 4 days, the chip temp as reported by the management software is around 43c (109f, ambient is around 70f). So this seems ok and must be substantially less than without the fan, but I'm wondering what chip temp others are seeing that are using this board.
Seems to me that for the price of this board they could have engineered a better cooling solution. But with the fan blowing right on it, that seams to deal with the heat.
Did some www searches and on Newegg saw that some are also reporting that this board runs really hot. The board is passively cooled - there is no fan on the heat sink. But to be so hot as to actually burn my finger? Ok, I should have moved my finger off faster but I was simply surprised how hot it was.
I ended up attaching a 120mm fan (Noctua running full speed) to a bracket and placed it right next to the LSI board pointed right at it. With that, just booting into the bios I only detected a small amount of heat. Looking at the chip temp it was around 41c. With the system fully complete, closed up and running now 24/7 for 4 days, the chip temp as reported by the management software is around 43c (109f, ambient is around 70f). So this seems ok and must be substantially less than without the fan, but I'm wondering what chip temp others are seeing that are using this board.
Seems to me that for the price of this board they could have engineered a better cooling solution. But with the fan blowing right on it, that seams to deal with the heat.