Socket FCBGA1310 cooling options?

[IamSpartacus]

Title says it all. Looking to cool an 8-Core Denverton (c3758) as quietly as possible in a 1U case.

 

[EffrafaxOfWug]

Hard to say for sure, but I imagine that given it's a SoC there's no standard HSF for the C3000 atoms. The supermicro board I have uses the same heatsinks as most of their Xeon-D line however, so many of the coolers suggested in those threads should also fit. However IIRC I think only a couple of them would fit in a 1U case.

FWIW the HSF on my A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F is "quiet enough" as long as the fan can be kept under 3000rpm (and OK-ish chassis air flow should suffice) depending on your usual load (mine is never stressed on more than a couple of cores). If you've got a model with only the heatsink you'll likely need high chassis airflow to compensate and in 1U that usually means screamers, so you might consider the SM HSF if it fits (no idea how to find the part number I'm afraid).

 

[IamSpartacus]

Hard to say for sure, but I imagine that given it's a SoC there's no standard HSF for the C3000 atoms. The supermicro board I have uses the same heatsinks as most of their Xeon-D line however, so many of the coolers suggested in those threads should also fit. However IIRC I think only a couple of them would fit in a 1U case.

FWIW the HSF on my A2SDi-8C+-HLN4F is "quiet enough" as long as the fan can be kept under 3000rpm (and OK-ish chassis air flow should suffice) depending on your usual load (mine is never stressed on more than a couple of cores). If you've got a model with only the heatsink you'll likely need high chassis airflow to compensate and in 1U that usually means screamers, so you might consider the SM HSF if it fits (no idea how to find the part number I'm afraid).

Thanks is for the feedback. Do you have your board as a firewall? If so what kind of load do you put on it (ie. WAN speed, IPS/DPI, VPN, etc). If the Xeon D heatsinks fit I could use a 1U Cooljag Buf-A heatsink that works well.

 

[EffrafaxOfWug]

Yeah the Buf-A is a better option than the Supermicro cooler (although I've not found anyone selling them in the EU so never had the opportunity to try one myself). Bear in mind I've only eyeballed that the mounting holes have the same placement it so best to measure twice, cut once and all that.

My board is in use as a file server rather than a network appliance I'm afraid so I don't have much an idea of WAN throughput in that usage scenario.

 

[Zig]

also looking for an active cooling solution for A2SDi-H-TF (Socket FCBGA1310).
Anyone with a 3D adapter?
Or a product that can be found on the European market?

 

[harrisg]

In order to cool my A2SDi-H-TF I took a 60mm noctua fan and positioned it right on top of the heatsink. Then I stripped a length of Cat6 and took out 4 individual wire strands and looped them under the little horizontal parts at the top of the outer most heatsink fins at each corner. The ends of the wire were looped thru the top mounting holes of the fan and twisted together to tighten it down to make it snug.

This brought my idle temps (TrueNAS in a 4U case) down from 70 C to 40 C. The fan is secure and it works great.