Xeon Heatsinks very Loud!

gander0

gander0

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Hi all,

Just rigged up my new workstation today:

2 Xeon S5345 active

Tyan i5400XT

Quadro FX3700

Enermax Galaxy 1000

Coolermaster Cosmos S,

Anyway after my initial relief that evething was working, I noticed that the Xeon heatsink fans were extremely loud.

The Cosmos S has fans all over it that are super quiet, but that seems irrelevant with the Xeons drowning everything out.

As I am now working from home and potentially leaving the machine to render over night I'm looking for some quieter socket 771 heatsinks and was hoping someone had some recommendations?

Seems like a lot of information on other socket type fans but not on these.

Any help is much appreciated!
 
There is only a limited choice i'm afraid:

Asaka AK-384 29 -46 dBa but maybe not any better than what you have.

But The Noctua NH-U12P fits the 771 socket and that is nice and quiet (13 - 20dBa) plus is a very good cooler for overclocking as well.

Ocuk not listing this for 771 but other sites are now. It might be worth checking because it might only be new stock which have the adjustments needed to fit 771.

I guess we will start seeing a few other cpu coolers coming out with fittings for the socket 771.
 
Usually Xeon's goes into a server systems that are held in a separate computer room they don't care about the noise levels as long as it keeps it cool. For example the smaller HP servers come full with tiny very high speed fans that is anything but silent.

Thankfully tho these days they usually go by temp sensors so they don't sit on full whack all the time.
 
I'd still be tempted to put a Noctua on them (if there is space) as you might even get away running passive and no fans at stock speeds and good airflow through the case.

Peace and quiet.:D
 
Thanks for your replies folks,

Penguin, i'll have a look at the fan speeds, ta!

Greebo, also gonna have a look a the Noctuas as you suggest. I like the idea I might be able to get them running passively. And there is a hell of a lot of air movement round the cosmos case that would help that cause.
 
WOW!

Updated my bios (must be some new fan controllers in there) and I thought i managed to kill my machine as after the noise the silence was eiree. I noticed however the fans were still going and my temperatures were fine.

Will do some rendering tests to see if i can get anywhere near to the noise I had before, but im thinking i won't need to change the heatsinks after all.

The update unfortunately didnt solve my NVIDIA quadro power problem, but thats a post for different thread.

Cheers!
 
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