cooling small supermicro board

[mineblaster]

i have a supermicro board in a 3u chassis and it has a tiny little 1u heatsink on it and provide expected results

the board in question

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SDV-2C-TP8F?locale=en

 

has anyone tried different coolers on this board

[MingLee420]

14 minutes ago, mineblaster said:

i have a supermicro board in a 3u chassis and it has a tiny little 1u heatsink on it and provide expected results

the board in question

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/X10SDV-2C-TP8F?locale=en

 

has anyone tried different coolers on this board

iv'e never seen anything like this before but i reckon putting like a tiny fan like 82-90mm fan on top of the heatsink would do the job

[8tg]

Does it have a fan or is it being cooled by directional airflow?

in 3U you should have the height to just put a small fan on top of the Heatsink, or replace the Heatsink with a 3U height tower but for that socket there’s not many choices

[mineblaster]

1 minute ago, MingLee420 said:

iv'e never seen anything like this before but i reckon putting like a tiny fan like 82-90mm fan on top of the heatsink would do the job

i did think about it as a short term solution. the case dose have airflow in a rack but this system run as a pfsense router 24/7 i was after something abit more solid

[mineblaster]

7 minutes ago, 8tg said:

Does it have a fan or is it being cooled by directional airflow?

in 3U you should have the height to just put a small fan on top of the Heatsink, or replace the Heatsink with a 3U height tower but for that socket there’s not many choices

i wasn't sure if someone had swaped coolers before as it is sold as a whole unit and im unsure if the cpu has a heat spreader or if it is a bare die.

[BiotechBen]

2 minutes ago, mineblaster said:

i wasn't sure if someone had swaped coolers before as it is sold as a whole unit and im unsure if the cpu has a heat spreader or if it is a bare die.

Seeing as it is a BGA chip, it's going to be soldered on, so my guess is that it is a bare die.

[BiotechBen]

7 minutes ago, mineblaster said:

i did think about it as a short term solution. the case dose have airflow in a rack but this system run as a pfsense router 24/7 i was after something abit more solid

What is the rack cooling solution, it may be suffering from not enough air displacement

[mineblaster]

47 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

Seeing as it is a BGA chip, it's going to be soldered on, so my guess is that it is a bare die.

yea my thought too. didn't wanna possibly

break it

[mineblaster]

47 minutes ago, BiotechBen said:

What is the rack cooling solution, it may be suffering from not enough air displacement

possibly its just a home rack in the garage and a draft come under the door and the windows always open.i will pull it out in a minute just watching wan show

[BiotechBen]

15 hours ago, mineblaster said:

possibly its just a home rack in the garage and a draft come under the door and the windows always open.i will pull it out in a minute just watching wan show

If the rack airflow isn't there, you could be in the tundra and still see throttling. 1U heatsinks usually need blowie-level airflow due to their small size

[mineblaster]

3 hours ago, BiotechBen said:

If the rack airflow isn't there, you could be in the tundra and still see throttling. 1U heatsinks usually need blowie-level airflow due to their small size

I had some other stuff to fix with it too

But I had a look around and found a little 60mm noctua fan

And zip tie it to the heatsink and tidy some of the wires out of the way aswell. 

 

It works much better with that fan on it. it's summer time here in nz so 30 degrees celcus for the first temp and I think it was 25 when I had done the second one the second measurement 

[BiotechBen]

1 hour ago, mineblaster said:

I had some other stuff to fix with it too

But I had a look around and found a little 60mm noctua fan

And zip tie it to the heatsink and tidy some of the wires out of the way aswell. 

 

It works much better with that fan on it. it's summer time here in nz so 30 degrees celcus for the first temp and I think it was 25 when I had done the second one the second measurement 

Yeah, 30C ambient is not great for passive cooling