Vertical CPU fan for X8SIL-F or X9SCL-F

[Jbiss]

Hi,

I'm looking to replace the stock Intel CPU fan on both my servers with an after-market vertical CPU fan in order to streamline the airflow. There is a sale on at NCIX for the Corsair A70 (NCIX link) however I'm not sure if the fan is to large/ wide for the motherboard. There isn't that much room between the CPU and the RAM modules.

Has someone installed a Corsair A70 fan on either a Supermicro X8SIL-F or X9SCL-F that can confirm if it fits or not? Do builders have any other suggestions for a vertical CPU fan to replace the stock Intel ones? Thanks.

 

[GoofyHSK]

The Noctua NH-U9B fits the X9SCM-F, - but one of the fan wires will hit the first pcie slot

I ghetto'd that side of the HSF

 

[fnc1]

goofyHSK: Are those Noctura's fans as quiet as they say? Does that one have the rippled blades?

 

[GoofyHSK]

I haven't had mine running enough to say yet :|

 

[Patrick]

I had the 90ish mm noctuas on a 4P G34 system. Fairly quiet but very expensive. One heatsink I really liked was the Dynatron A1. Huge block of copper. Not sure if they make anything similar for LGA 1155/1156

 

[emc]

I use the XIGMATEK LOKI SD963 92mm HYPRO Bearing cooler ... works fine for me

 

[mobilenvidia]

goofyHSK: Are those Noctura's fans as quiet as they say? Does that one have the rippled blades?

Noctua fans are as quiet as they say they they are.

I'll take picture of my setup I have a Huge Noctua Horizontal cooler to also blow air onto the Heatsinks all around the CPU socket and RAM.

 

[Jbiss]

To do a follow-up, thanks everyone for you suggestions. I ended up going with the Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro REV.2 CPU Heat sink Cooler as it was pretty cheap (25$ on sale). The bottom of the fan is right above the RAM modules but it isn't touching. I have run stress (on Fedora) and with my Intel Xeon E3-1230 running all cores, the temperature hasn't gone above 49 degrees Celsius. The temperature under a normal load stays around 30 degrees.

The fan is super quiet so allow with keeping the CPU cool, I am very happy with this heat sink.

 

[Patrick]

Great to know. For $25 that is very affordable.

 

[GoofyHSK]

Where are you seeing CPU temp?
My bios and IPMI pages just show "Low/Medium/High"

 

[Jbiss]

You're right GoofyHSK, the CPU temp stays at Low but the whole chasis is now cooler due to better air flow.

 

[Metaluna]

Great to know. For $25 that is very affordable.

Yep, there's no need to go crazy on cooling with these low power Xeons unless you're shooting for ultimate silence. Or if you're overclocking, but that's not gonna happen with an X8SIL-F. Some other good $25 coolers are the Xigmatek SD963 mentioned earlier, as well as the Cooler Master Hyper 212+ and Hyper TX3.