More hard drive slots? No problem! Extra vibrations are good for hard drives probably.
I can hear the case vibration in that picture lol
This isn’t a high rpm fan, it’s enough to keep the LSI card cool.
Ohh I was referring to the pic posted behind the “No problem” link in that user’s comment lol
What temps were you seeing before adding the fan?
Hot to touch, and now its warn to touch.
As long as it’s not
errororcriticalto touch, you should be good.
Just add hard drives until there is no play for vibration.
Acronyms, initialisms, abbreviations, contractions, and other phrases which expand to something larger, that I’ve seen in this thread:
Fewer Letters More Letters PCIe Peripheral Component Interconnect Express SATA Serial AT Attachment interface for mass storage SSD Solid State Drive mass storage
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Gotta love a good TLA.
When I was a kid, the first PC I built was a white box with a Pentium 4 HT, which was still a fairly new CPU at the time. It ran hot so I cut a hole in the side of the case, bolted a 120 MM fan in the hole, and covered it with a shroud that I think I must have fabricated with Aluminum facia.
It didn’t look pretty but it worked. And it kept my bedroom toasty in the winter.
A coworker of mine was an computer engineer in the early 2000s, but is now a warehouse director. She told me she helped her son build a new pc but it was having heating issues. I asked about fans and she said it only had 2 intake on the front with no exhaust. Told her a local shop that has cheaply priced good fans. She said computers have changed a lot in 20 years. I helped in about a week ago with choosing storage blocks, had no clue nvme even existed.
You do lose touch rather quickly. I’m a software developer, but I’m not really interested in hardware in my free time, so I honestly didn’t know what exactly to make of nvme until very recently.
The first time I saw an m.2 SSD in real life was about a year ago.
Zipties and brown for life.
Gotta give it to noctua for making brown cool
I’d say it was the fan that solved the overheating problem, not the zip ties.
I tried just the fan on it’s own, but gravity always left it sat at the bottem of my case.
I did this without the zip ties, kind of wedge it between the motherboard and the power cables.
Nice, I ended up just taping a fan on underneath using HVAC tape applied directly to the heatsink.
The plastic screw thing that holds the heatsink on can become brittle and break after some years. It might be worth picking up some small nylon bolts online before that happens.
Edit: or I guess zip ties would work if it comes to that…
I placed my fan over the heatsink and did an X pattern in zipties to hold it all in place
Are they the solution?
Always, if it’s not, you need more zip ties.
So they ARE the solution.
