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- May 23, 2008
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- London, England
I recently got a dual Xeon E5-2670 1U server from eBay for cheap, and while it works very well, it sounds like a jet engine at takeoff power (I knew this beforehand), with 4 40mm fans spinning at 12000RPM at load.
Very similar to this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Supermicr...ual-PS-Rail-/131938488898?hash=item1eb8259242
I am thinking about modding it to be quiet so I can use it as a workstation (right now I have it hidden away in another room, and I SSH into it to run compute-heavy tasks).
Since I don't actually need it to fit in 1U space (or any U, since I don't actually have a rack), I am thinking about cutting a window out of the top panel, replace it with acrylic with a few 120mm fans blowing onto the motherboard.
Has anyone done something like this before? Or any other way to make an 1U quiet?
Very similar to this one: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Supermicr...ual-PS-Rail-/131938488898?hash=item1eb8259242
I am thinking about modding it to be quiet so I can use it as a workstation (right now I have it hidden away in another room, and I SSH into it to run compute-heavy tasks).
Since I don't actually need it to fit in 1U space (or any U, since I don't actually have a rack), I am thinking about cutting a window out of the top panel, replace it with acrylic with a few 120mm fans blowing onto the motherboard.
Has anyone done something like this before? Or any other way to make an 1U quiet?