Sacrificed/cut up a Noctua NF-A4x10 -> MUCH more silent terminal output GPU

[Metallus97]

F for the smallest noctua there is. But this was well worth it!

I use this old AMD HD6450 as a terminal output and boot device for my Unraid, but the rest of the system is 100% on a full big loop (with noctua fans) and therefore very silent.

This cards fan has a damaged bearing and was running 100% all the time due to no proper fan control being available and other problems with linux (wich unsaid is based on).

SO yeha spend 10$ for a used NF-A4, cut it up and glued it in to place. Used Noctua OmniJoin and a low noise adapter -> cant hear it and the GPU stays cool!

[thrasher_565]

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well i wouldn't cut up a fan but meh i would just zip tie it. ya old gpus are LOUDE!

might have just gone with out the fan...

also you can buy a pci 120mm fan to blow on it but anyway.

[Metallus97]

7 hours ago, thrasher_565 said:

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well i wouldn't cut up a fan but meh i would just zip tie it. ya old gpus are LOUDE!

might have just gone with out the fan...

also you can buy a pci 120mm fan to blow on it but anyway.

yeha first I was about to use zip ties, but then the card was to big and would get close to zero airflow.... and well: It fits so perfectly in there and was only 10$  .

Same with the PCIe fan: no space and that would be louder than the noc

[Alex Atkin UK]

If its just for basic video output it seems a huge waste of both a fan and electricity, seeing as a basic passive video card should be pretty cheap and anything powerful enough to need a fan is likely to idle quite high compared to something that doesn't.

[Metallus97]

44 minutes ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

If its just for basic video output it seems a huge waste of both a fan and electricity, seeing as a basic passive video card should be pretty cheap and anything powerful enough to need a fan is likely to idle quite high compared to something that doesn't.

Thats correct! But I have pretty low airflow inside the case because of external rads and didn't. want to buy a lower energy GPU for output. The fan itself consumes about 1W so I dont care about that. The system doesn't over 1 kW soooo yeha xD.

Maybe at some point ill replace it with something more efficient!

[Alex Atkin UK]

25 minutes ago, Metallus97 said:

Thats correct! But I have pretty low airflow inside the case because of external rads and didn't. want to buy a lower energy GPU for output. The fan itself consumes about 1W so I dont care about that. The system doesn't over 1 kW soooo yeha xD.

Maybe at some point ill replace it with something more efficient!

Not really had to think about it though for years personally though as everything I own has iGPUs.

[Metallus97]

11 hours ago, Alex Atkin UK said:

Not really had to think about it though for years personally though as everything I own has iGPUs.

Welllll I need paralisation big time. Therefore Ryzen was the only option. Well ok I am to poor for Thread-ipper ...