Good Afternoon Folks, my X10SDV-4C-7TP4F arrived recently to be part of a reasonably quiet system. Been reading intently the other threads on heat and cooling issues / requirements for these SM board. To understand the processor / requirements a little more downloaded the the intel " Intel® Xeon® Processor D-1500 Product Family Thermal/Mechanical Specification and Design Guide, dated november 2015 " which was immediately an eye opener.
The 4 or so designs they provide for use, are different to what SM used, which is no major issue in the short term for alternate heatsinks. ALl of these intel drawings are for mounting holes at 56mm x 38mm, the supermicro cooler is approx 50.xmm x 50.xmm.
Looking at intel drawings, they are all for very high airflow environments as below.
and something a little more like the current SM cooler.
The goal I am embarking on is to create something, without too much agricultural engineering or cost to cool it more quietly in 3 u case. As is the usual case I recently threw out 2 very old coolers which may have been close to the needs.
Plan is to look at some 2U coolers like the intel or SM, probably with ones with fans as they have more open area to redrill new mount holes, or one of the new Noctua coolers NH-D9DX i4 3U or NH-D9L. The SM boards have very little space on one side of the CPU, but the other 3 sides have more flexibilty for overhang.
I did look on the internet, there are in fact many coolers out there for Xeon D, but all similar to the Intel drawings or the existing SM versions. So the exercise will begin in the next few days. Any practical and brilliant ideas will be gladly accepted
. Will update in a couple days with some news..
The 4 or so designs they provide for use, are different to what SM used, which is no major issue in the short term for alternate heatsinks. ALl of these intel drawings are for mounting holes at 56mm x 38mm, the supermicro cooler is approx 50.xmm x 50.xmm.
Looking at intel drawings, they are all for very high airflow environments as below.
and something a little more like the current SM cooler.
The goal I am embarking on is to create something, without too much agricultural engineering or cost to cool it more quietly in 3 u case. As is the usual case I recently threw out 2 very old coolers which may have been close to the needs.
Plan is to look at some 2U coolers like the intel or SM, probably with ones with fans as they have more open area to redrill new mount holes, or one of the new Noctua coolers NH-D9DX i4 3U or NH-D9L. The SM boards have very little space on one side of the CPU, but the other 3 sides have more flexibilty for overhang.
I did look on the internet, there are in fact many coolers out there for Xeon D, but all similar to the Intel drawings or the existing SM versions. So the exercise will begin in the next few days. Any practical and brilliant ideas will be gladly accepted
. Will update in a couple days with some news..
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