EU [WTB][To close] Mini itx c3558 or c3758 board with 8 sata
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Active coolers from Supermicro make some high pitch noise. Possibly less annoying than the noise from 8 spinners but still….
For building in a non-server case, you may as well put a Noctua NF-A6x25 on a "passive" cooler, with two strips of gaffer tape to secure it to the sides of the heatsink (including in vertical position). It's quieter than the native active cooler.
For building in a non-server case, you may as well put a Noctua NF-A6x25 on a "passive" cooler, with two strips of gaffer tape to secure it to the sides of the heatsink (including in vertical position). It's quieter than the native active cooler.
@rockerz2k should already be familiar with the Supermicro C0057A4L on their Xeon D board. Same active heatsink goes on A2SDi boards. 
I agree but the issue is that my case have the motherboard vertically mounted. So a bit trickier
Yes, replaced them with Gelid Silent 5 ones, although only 3 Pin they are much less noisy than the original ones. Keeps even a C3958 as cool as the original.
I don't think Noctua makes a 50mm fan.
Ah, very cool! 3-pin means you lose modulation so it runs at constant speed?
Unplug the fan, unscrew the heatsink, run stress-ng to heat and soften the thermal compound (at worst the board shuts itself down…), unplug the computer, carefully wiggle the warm heatsink and remove it, let cool and clean thermal compound. Then you can unscrew the fan to replace it, and put back the heatsink assembly with new thermal paste.
Or you can get a version with passive heatsink and put a Noctua on it. I repeat: With two strips of gaffer tape on the sides of the heatsink. That's perfectly sufficient to hold the fan, even in vertical position.
You have to remove the heatsink, good time to check/re-paste the thermal paste. Use a hairdryer to firmly heat up the sink and try to move carefully.
A 60mm fan would almost certainly cover the heatsink mounting screws. I suppose you could tape one on as @etorix suggested above.
Or use thin zip ties like I do:
or replace with Gelid Silent 5 like so:
or replace with Gelid Silent 5 like so:
Thank you all for the nice tips. I really appreciate! Great community!
Back to original topic: German electronic retailer „Jacob.de“ has A2SDI-4C-HLN4F in stock for around 400€. It’s the passive cooled one so you might ad a 60 Noctua fan yourself.
Very reliable shop, does shipping to EU.
You have to go there via this link, otherwise it’s 30€ more if you go direkt.
www.idealo.de
Very reliable shop, does shipping to EU.
You have to go there via this link, otherwise it’s 30€ more if you go direkt.
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