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Or how i've managed to drop the temps on my 22 cores cpu by -18ºC for 15,9$ + shipping costs
(don't expect any shiny polished solution )
After eight months with my 22 cores XEON E5-2696, I have realized that I had to do something with the high temps.
This CPU behaves like two. When you are gaming or working with any app, it hardly gets 70ºC, but when I use it for 3d rendering, It rises up to 99-100ºC after just some minutes.
I think that the max temp that it can handle without throttling is 105ºC, so it is going hot as hell.
After trying MANY fans and heatsinks, I've realized that the best combo was the Dynatron T-318 with Thermalright ty-100 fan. It is the only combination that dind't lead to +100ºC while rendering (yes I have tryed noctua fans, falcon and thermalright heatsinks, gamersotrm fan, etc etc, and none of them can handle this cpu).
In august, reaching 100ºC was very very easy so I used to have a hair dryer in cold mode to cool down the cpu very quick if required (it is able to drop temps drastically if you put it directly on the fins in the dynatron side, even from 100º to 75ºC in a minute) so I thought on trying to make some kind of wind tunnel like the ones on FE GPUs, with small fans like the ones on the pictures below that acted like an integrated "hairdryer".
So, the first idea was to put four 40x40 fans in each side of the dynatron heatsink in pull configuration, leaving the main fan in the middle in push configuration, but ty-100 is too wide, so 40+100+40mm didn't fit.
That's why I tryed with the noctua NF-A9x14 + 4x 40x40x10mm fans in the following scheme that fits perfectly:
After that I tryed with this configuration:
TY-100 + 2 x 40x40x20mm fans.
After tryng both configurations, ty-100 fan + 2x 40x40x20mm fans was definetly the one that presented better temps as the ty-100 has been better than the noctua in all of my tests.
So the next step was to select a fan height.
There are a lot of small and inexpensive fans out there but most of them have a fixed voltage, so they always run at maximum speed. After some researching I discovered a very versatile format that has PWM capablitities.
I have tested these three fans with three different heights:
· 40X40X10mm Everflow PWM
It was the first that I purchased, I thought on putting towers of two of them to achieve double of air flow, but it didn't make any difference and they sound like bees at full speed.
· 40X40X15mm Evercool PWM
This ones are by far the most powerful of the three, and they fit perfectly on top of the dynatron leaving 5mm of room between the case and the fan, but they are extremely loud. If you want the highest performance these ones are the best by my testing.
· 40X40X20mm Evercool PWM <<< the one that I've chosen
It is by far the most silent of the three, although It can achieve the same performance as the others without speeding up so much. It is taller so the propeller is bigger and it needs less speed to move the same amount of air. Even at full speed it is definetly quieter.
So the last step was to create an air duct, to ensure that the air pressure isn't lost through any hole, so I made one as you see in the next picure with some plastic cardboard, a pair of scissors and double sided tape.
I used the same fan curve for the main ty-100 fan as I had before, but for the other two I configured them to be at 30% all the time, till the system reaches 70ºC, when the fans speed up at 100%.
That ensures that most of the time, even while gaming the computer should be quiet, but while rendering the turbo would turn on keeping it cold.
And here the results while rendering (ambient temp 30ºC):
Open case:
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 ----------------------------------------------------- 100ºC
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 + 2 x 40X40X20mm Evercool PWM ----- 82ºC - 18%
Closed case:
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 ----------------------------------------------------- 100ºC (the same as opened in testings, but I used to open it for precaution)
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 + 2 x 40X40X20mm Evercool PWM ----- 87ºC - 13%
It is a 13-18ºC gain!
Using this kind of fans in this case is a joy, so try them and let me know your results!!
>>> A4-SFX-TURBO <<<
Or how i've managed to drop the temps on my 22 cores cpu by -18ºC for 15,9$ + shipping costs
(don't expect any shiny polished solution )
After eight months with my 22 cores XEON E5-2696, I have realized that I had to do something with the high temps.
This CPU behaves like two. When you are gaming or working with any app, it hardly gets 70ºC, but when I use it for 3d rendering, It rises up to 99-100ºC after just some minutes.
I think that the max temp that it can handle without throttling is 105ºC, so it is going hot as hell.
After trying MANY fans and heatsinks, I've realized that the best combo was the Dynatron T-318 with Thermalright ty-100 fan. It is the only combination that dind't lead to +100ºC while rendering (yes I have tryed noctua fans, falcon and thermalright heatsinks, gamersotrm fan, etc etc, and none of them can handle this cpu).
In august, reaching 100ºC was very very easy so I used to have a hair dryer in cold mode to cool down the cpu very quick if required (it is able to drop temps drastically if you put it directly on the fins in the dynatron side, even from 100º to 75ºC in a minute) so I thought on trying to make some kind of wind tunnel like the ones on FE GPUs, with small fans like the ones on the pictures below that acted like an integrated "hairdryer".
So, the first idea was to put four 40x40 fans in each side of the dynatron heatsink in pull configuration, leaving the main fan in the middle in push configuration, but ty-100 is too wide, so 40+100+40mm didn't fit.
That's why I tryed with the noctua NF-A9x14 + 4x 40x40x10mm fans in the following scheme that fits perfectly:
After that I tryed with this configuration:
TY-100 + 2 x 40x40x20mm fans.
After tryng both configurations, ty-100 fan + 2x 40x40x20mm fans was definetly the one that presented better temps as the ty-100 has been better than the noctua in all of my tests.
So the next step was to select a fan height.
There are a lot of small and inexpensive fans out there but most of them have a fixed voltage, so they always run at maximum speed. After some researching I discovered a very versatile format that has PWM capablitities.
I have tested these three fans with three different heights:
· 40X40X10mm Everflow PWM
It was the first that I purchased, I thought on putting towers of two of them to achieve double of air flow, but it didn't make any difference and they sound like bees at full speed.
· 40X40X15mm Evercool PWM
This ones are by far the most powerful of the three, and they fit perfectly on top of the dynatron leaving 5mm of room between the case and the fan, but they are extremely loud. If you want the highest performance these ones are the best by my testing.
· 40X40X20mm Evercool PWM <<< the one that I've chosen
It is by far the most silent of the three, although It can achieve the same performance as the others without speeding up so much. It is taller so the propeller is bigger and it needs less speed to move the same amount of air. Even at full speed it is definetly quieter.
So the last step was to create an air duct, to ensure that the air pressure isn't lost through any hole, so I made one as you see in the next picure with some plastic cardboard, a pair of scissors and double sided tape.
I used the same fan curve for the main ty-100 fan as I had before, but for the other two I configured them to be at 30% all the time, till the system reaches 70ºC, when the fans speed up at 100%.
That ensures that most of the time, even while gaming the computer should be quiet, but while rendering the turbo would turn on keeping it cold.
And here the results while rendering (ambient temp 30ºC):
Open case:
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 ----------------------------------------------------- 100ºC
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 + 2 x 40X40X20mm Evercool PWM ----- 82ºC - 18%
Closed case:
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 ----------------------------------------------------- 100ºC (the same as opened in testings, but I used to open it for precaution)
TY-100 + dynatron T-318 + 2 x 40X40X20mm Evercool PWM ----- 87ºC - 13%
It is a 13-18ºC gain!
Using this kind of fans in this case is a joy, so try them and let me know your results!!
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