Recent content by valve5425

@sancho Appreciate the clarification on the TDP at 45 watts. I did think 115 watts was stretching it a bit. Wrong intel xeon 8/16 I was looking at.

Thanks for the links Sancho. This is the first time I've come across completely silent builds using two fans. I've experience of Noctua, Zalman and Papst, so it's nice to know things have progressed so much!! 115 watt cpu, all those drives and ram, and silent as well is pretty hard core. Any...

My understanding of thermal grease/paste is that it's purely to fill in any minor imperfections in the contact surfaces. It's thermal transfer property is usually less than that of copper and sometimes aluminium, so using more of it is counter productive. When connecting the HDPLEX heat block...

Like the OP I'm a newbie too, so Hi everyone! Thought you might like a few observations on my experience building the Version 3. This is not a comprehensive build post, as you can find the installation guide on the HDPLEX site. V3 is bigger than my old V1 from 2015, but appears to be the same...