I live in an appartment where one of my three bedrooms are used as an office, and where I house my computers.
From the very start I knew that I had to silence the C6100 when I got it, and I'm very gratefull for PigLover and others that have taken the small steps first, and documentet
their attemts, towards the goal of making it possible to sit next to a C6100 without going crazy from the noice
Due to lack of skill and equipment, I wanted to go the route where you swap out the fans without cutting/modifying wires. Soldering is not an option unless I pay someone to do it
Earlyer in this thread the Supermicro FAN-0074L4 came up as a good option for a more silent fan than the original Delta-fans, so I bought 4 of these from eBay.
From others in this thread I also knew that the cable on these Supermicro-fans were quite short (only 2"/5cm, see picture), so I also bought some Dell adapter-cable from 4-to-5 pins.
The adapter-cables I bought was not the ones from FrozenCPU.com (
FrozenCPU.com 4-Pin PWM to 5-Pin Dell Adapter Cable - 8" Length (CB-PWM-D5) - FrozenCPU.com),
which were only 8"/20 cm long, but I found some ~14"/35 cm long cables on eBay (
X2 Motherboard 4pin to Dell 5pin 4 Wires Adapter Cable Wire Converter 383 002 | eBay)
and I was very glad I did. From fan number 4 there is just enough cable to connect to the fan controller (see picture below).
The Supermicro FAN-0074L4 had the San Ace 80 model 9G0812P1F03 fan inside, as confirmed by RimBlock. However the fan had 2 closed and 2 "open" ribs going from corner-hole to corner-hole, so I guess I need to remove those to be able to reuse the rubber-plugs holding the original fans to the chassis.
overview:
fan:
fan right:
fan left:
fan cable:
Now I just need to put it all back togheter and hope that I remember where all the screws went
Edit
When test-mounting the fans now, I just realized that by putting the cables ontop of the fans, instead of below and through the fan-guard like the original cables are, the cablerun are abit shorter, and much easier to handle.
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Edit2
Dont buy the cable-extender on the eBay-link posted above, the cables do not have the same order on both connectors, and will not work as is.
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