I know a lot of people here have the c6220 so this would be a good place to ask.
I'm considering purchasing one of these due to cost/performance ratio, but it needs to be quiet for sitting in an office and possibly later my home ( I know, but hear me out)
I'm not worried at all about the height and making this go from 2u to even 6u. this is purely cost/performance choice. ordering 4x dell t5600 units to canada would be way more in cost after shipping/duties, and still take up way more space than the c6220 ever will...
I'm just wondering if the machine will still run if the front fans are removed?
I'm trying to run down ways to tame it.
I'm considering water cooling for the lower 2 nodes, and then just some large noctua cpu coolers for the top nodes. does the ram etc still need good airflow?
if so, if I just put in 4 rather slow 60mm fans in their place (purely for ram etc), will I be riddled with issues trying to run it?
I'll just be running windows server to use this as render nodes for 3d animation (3ds max/vray)
alternatively, as height is not an issue, what if I 3d printed some fan funnels and swapped the 4 60mm front fans for 2x 120mm fans? I don't really understand cfm, if each fan is currently ( I think) ~130cfm, do the 2x 120mm fans need to be 260cfm each?
I don't care about the front drive bays. I only need 1 drive per node.
thank you
I'm considering purchasing one of these due to cost/performance ratio, but it needs to be quiet for sitting in an office and possibly later my home ( I know, but hear me out)
I'm not worried at all about the height and making this go from 2u to even 6u. this is purely cost/performance choice. ordering 4x dell t5600 units to canada would be way more in cost after shipping/duties, and still take up way more space than the c6220 ever will...
I'm just wondering if the machine will still run if the front fans are removed?
I'm trying to run down ways to tame it.
I'm considering water cooling for the lower 2 nodes, and then just some large noctua cpu coolers for the top nodes. does the ram etc still need good airflow?
if so, if I just put in 4 rather slow 60mm fans in their place (purely for ram etc), will I be riddled with issues trying to run it?
I'll just be running windows server to use this as render nodes for 3d animation (3ds max/vray)
alternatively, as height is not an issue, what if I 3d printed some fan funnels and swapped the 4 60mm front fans for 2x 120mm fans? I don't really understand cfm, if each fan is currently ( I think) ~130cfm, do the 2x 120mm fans need to be 260cfm each?
I don't care about the front drive bays. I only need 1 drive per node.
thank you