Hey guys, so I need a reliable and good cooler that is under 30mm tall for my PFsense box. I asked this here once before, and was suggested a Zalman CPNSx2, well 2 failures in under a year, that is no longer cutting it. The first one outright stopped working, after a short time. The second one, is now on the fritz making loud ticking noises. This is a 24/7, needs to be up at all time system.
It runs not only my personal house LAN, my businesses "Hotel Wifi", and also all my servers. And CPU fans that die for no reason aint getting it lol.
Now I do have, 3 Noctua 40mms right in front of the board, so I could try the Linus method of a huge Copper block, but I'm not sure that would be enough to cool my Xeon. Though a heat sink with its own fan and a fin array that can benefit from my front airflow would be good.
I know Linus had a bunch of issues with the block cooler, but he was using a desktop board, I am not, my board is designed for that type of cooler. If nothing else will be reliable I may attempt that route. Here is my board.
It runs not only my personal house LAN, my businesses "Hotel Wifi", and also all my servers. And CPU fans that die for no reason aint getting it lol.
Now I do have, 3 Noctua 40mms right in front of the board, so I could try the Linus method of a huge Copper block, but I'm not sure that would be enough to cool my Xeon. Though a heat sink with its own fan and a fin array that can benefit from my front airflow would be good.
I know Linus had a bunch of issues with the block cooler, but he was using a desktop board, I am not, my board is designed for that type of cooler. If nothing else will be reliable I may attempt that route. Here is my board.
