The power cable is even easy to remove, but about that power cable… The Bad News: The Power Cables are Proprietary One side of the fan cage has click-on tabs that hold the fan in, so even thin ones are fine. Just pop the fans out of their orange cases – no tools required – and pop in the new one.Īny 92mm fan up to 38mm thick will work, and thinner fans like this work fine too. Unlike some vendors, Dell’s fans use a removable cage surrounding an industry-standard fan. The Good News: It’s Easy to Swap the Fans Some models will wait for the user to hit a key to acknowledge that error, and I don’t want that happening – I leave my servers in the closet without a monitor attached. If you don’t get fans that are PWM-controlled, then the Dell motherboard will freak out upon boot-up and think there’s no fans connected. I highly recommend these Artic F9 PWM 92MM fans. I bought six quiet 92mm PWM-controlled fans for under $10 each that: Quiet-PC freaks like me turn to fans that turn slower, yet still push a lot of air. Have pulse width modulation (PWM) speed control – the motherboard can control the fan speed based on how hot the server getsįans like this rely on very fast rotation speeds to push a lot of air, but the faster the blade spins, the more noise it makes.Scream at 57 decibels – not quite as loud as yo momma, but close.
#Silenz 100 case fan full#
They’re temperature-controlled, so they don’t go full blast unless the server’s working hard, but even at very light loads they’re just way too loud. It’s got 6 92mm fans that can wake the dead. Seriously, the case is bulletproof and gawdawful heavy.īut it’s loud. Two quad-core CPUs, 16gb of memory, six SATA drives in a RAID 10, and about a hundred pounds of solid steel. Quest got me a Dell PowerEdge 1900 to use as a virtualization host, and it’s been great.
#Silenz 100 case fan how to#
I’ve blogged about how to build a silent PC, but today I’m tackling another noisy beast – an off-the-rack server. I like running my lab out of my office closet, but I don’t want to hear any of them running.
I don't suppose anyone has some suggestions they'd like to weigh in? I would greatly appreciate your knowledge :DĪre you in the US? Easy shipping distance? If you are looking for an interim cooler until you can build your water loop, I have a Corsair H100i brand new still in the box you can have.I’ve got a few servers in my home lab and I’ve always taken steps to make sure they’re quiet. I have already purchased Corsair 16gb of Dominator Platinum CMD16GX3M2A1866C9 and the research for a compatible cooler is giving me a headache! One really good point (flaw?) I noticed is the height of RAM.
There are quite a few suggestions here for a decent CPU cooler, as are there a few more at tomshardware and the like. I can afford my GPU in approx 2 weeks so I'm just going to go ahead without water, for now. I'm skint, costs are spiraling out of control and I just want to get my new computer up and running. Thing is, I'm almost 30, with 2 kids and recently quit my job to put my full focus on college. I recently purchased a M5F with the intentions of creating a custom loop water cooling system. Hello, new here an had a question relating to CPU cooler for the M5F which I recently purchased and didn't want to start a new thread, hope its alright to give this a bump.
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