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Done something similar when my CPU cooler didn't fit the HP case
I don't know why but this has me rolling. Genuinely had to catch my breath.
Happy to know my redneck engineering made you laugh! It was either that or a custom water loop.
If it's stupid, but it works, it's not stupid.
i mean there are things that work and that are stupid, and will stay stupid. using toothpaste for example as thermal paste is doable and you can get usable temps with it. but the con is that toothpaste dries up very quickly, requiring you to need to constantly reapply it.
it works, but its still a stupid idea.
That probably worked way better than having it in a thermally constrained environment.
It's also way more quiet than those damn pesky 1U fans and I had the space available in my rack
Is that some kind of blade server? Doesn’t that make it like not rack with other blades?
No it's just a 1U server. It does mean that the next 3U over the server can't be fully used (switches would probably clear). That server pretty much replaced my whole stack except for my NAS so I had space available.
So .. you have to remove your CPU cooler to open the case? That does not look very convenient.
The top has just enough slide room to disengage from the chassis and be pulled upward. Being able to hotswap components is a requirementfor my case.
I guess airflow is airflow, don't matter which way