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Has anyone built an audio fanless PC with this running Server 2012R2 and what has been the experience please?
Please let us know what motherboard, RAM (ecc?), and heat sink are used.
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I built a fanless PC using
Intel S1200KPR motherboard
Intel Pentium processor
Steacom FC8 case (includes passive heatsink)
DDR3 Ram with ECC (think it was patriot)
and it worked fine running linux.
When I tried to install server2012 on it, it would crash. After some investigation, I figured out my chipset was overheating, the northbridge. Searched, and found other people had this problem.
You might get lucky, but in the Intel Motherboard datasheet, it talks about the need for air cooling for the chipset. If you have a fan on the processor heatsink, the airflow from it should be enough to keep the chipset cool.
I ended up getting a Scythe Shuriken Rev B heatsink, it is relatively cheap, and works well.
The newer processor heatsinks have 4 pin fans, two pins for power, one for fan speed sensor and the 4th for fan control. My motherboard controls the fan speed, and with the newer lower power processors, fan is basically silent. I can only hear about a foot away from the processor. if it was running full speed it would be louder.
Unrelated, I had problems with this setup, for some reason the DAC volume was too low, and I couldn't figure out why.
I started using an older PC case that I had bought for a HTPC, and MSI motherboard and newer Haswell Celeron processor. The case is large, so I can add my own power supplies and other tweaks as I see mess around with my PC. The MSI motherboard is forgiving on non atx compliant power, and I am feeding it with 3 separate LPS's, plus another LPS for the PCIE USB board.
Randy
[URL=http://randytsuch-audio.blogspot.com/2005/10/my-system.html]RandyTsuch System[/URL]
I usually glue extra heat sinks on the Bridge(s) as they do run hot and hotter than cpu.
I thought about that, but decided to just throw a fan at it instead. For me, running one basically silent fan is close enough to fanless that I don't worry about it.
One think I forgot to mention before. I don't think the 1230 has graphics built in, pretty sure you need to move up the foodchain to get graphics, that's why people are using the 1265l, because it's lower power and has graphics.
But, if this is a just a music PC, I think you can use a higher TDP processor and still go fanless. I was using a 65w TDP G630 and it barely got warm. I think the entire PC drew around 30 watts when listening to music.
Randy
[URL=http://randytsuch-audio.blogspot.com/2005/10/my-system.html]RandyTsuch System[/URL]
whether this is a good or bad thing, I don't know
Fred,
Not with the Haswell but previous generation. If you want to use the Haswell there are some C226 chipset boards available, but not Intel branded yet. I have not tried any yet.
What I am using: Previous generation.
Server Board Intel S1200KPR
E3-1260L you can also use the 1265L.
ECC memory, the board takes non registered ECC. I am using Samsung. The guys from Jplay like Apacer best. You can probably find some. They are hard to fine in the US.
Link for cases below.
Bob
id you come across the thermal issue with the Northbridge fanless?
"id you come across the thermal issue with the Northbridge fanless?"
No I have not had any problem.
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