unRaid build air or water cooled?

[Tazz 316]

Have a AMD 3600 in my unraid build should i use the stock cooler or go water cooler?

[SEAL62]

I would aim for a good air cooler. You know, there are more options than just stock air cooler or water cooling.

[Windows7ge]

I would choose reliability over noise/performance in a server application. Don't want it going offline because a pump failed.

[Spudwell06]

2 minutes ago, Tazz 316 said:

Have a AMD 3600 in my unraid build should i use the stock cooler or go water cooler?

If you have the money, water cooling will be better

but a good air cooler (non stock) would cost less and would stop throttling 

[Tazz 316]

I have the stock cooler on it at the moment and have not noticed any throttling. I am trying to find the CPU temp in unRaid maybe even a log of it to see how hot it's getting.

 

I do not put much strain on it as i don't do any transcoding. I did put some high flow fans in it that are loud as hell they push over 100CFM over the HDD's

[Windows7ge]

15 minutes ago, Tazz 316 said:

I have the stock cooler on it at the moment and have not noticed any throttling. I am trying to find the CPU temp in unRaid maybe even a log of it to see how hot it's getting.

 

I do not put much strain on it as i don't do any transcoding. I did put some high flow fans in it that are loud as hell they push over 100CFM over the HDD's

I would just check it in the BIOS. If you know you don't hit the CPU hard or run any high demand VM's I wouldn't worry about it.

 

If your chassis has the headroom you can look into the CoolerMaster Hyper 212. Just make sure you get the one with AM4 compatibility.

[Tazz 316]

5 hours ago, Windows7ge said:

I would just check it in the BIOS. If you know you don't hit the CPU hard or run any high demand VM's I wouldn't worry about it.

 

If your chassis has the headroom you can look into the CoolerMaster Hyper 212. Just make sure you get the one with AM4 compatibility.

Isn't it the V2 that is AM4?

[Windows7ge]

5 minutes ago, Tazz 316 said:

Isn't it the V2 that is AM4?

...I think?...

 

This version.

[Salacious B Crum]

16 hours ago, Tazz 316 said:

Have a AMD 3600 in my unraid build should i use the stock cooler or go water cooler?

As stated above a water cooled system would be nice but not practical if you built your server on the basis of high availability a pump failure is just one more thing to go wrong

[Tazz 316]

I've never had a water pump fail but if one did and you where not around to catch it wouldn't the CPU throttle before being killed by the heat so your HDDs may or may not be ok if there was nothing being sync at the time.

[Salacious B Crum]

On 3/8/2021 at 7:03 AM, Tazz 316 said:

I've never had a water pump fail but if one did and you where not around to catch it wouldn't the CPU throttle before being killed by the heat so your HDDs may or may not be ok if there was nothing being sync at the time.

In theory that should be how it goes but who wants to take that chance especially in a server where you would expect i/o activity potentially happening not to mention the mere fact that your cpu was just torched with heat can't be good for longevity albeit a very few would actually die as a result