Dell T7500 heatsink and fan replacement

[gamerb0y]

I recently bought a Dell T7500 server with dual xeon x5690 and 96 GB of RAM for dirt cheap price. Everything works fine on the pc but in my opinion it is a bit loud. Is it possible to replace the fans and heatsink of the pc? The pc has three big fans, i was thinking replacing them with noctua fans as they are dead silent. The problem is I dont know the air flow capacity of the fans installed in the t7500 compared to noctua fans. Any help would be appreciated

 

[jaslion]

I recently bought a Dell T7500 server with dual xeon x5690 and 96 GB of RAM for dirt cheap price. Everything works fine on the pc but in my opinion it is a bit loud. Is it possible to replace the fans and heatsink of the pc? The pc has three big fans, i was thinking replacing them with noctua fans as they are dead silent. The problem is I dont know the air flow capacity of the fans installed in the t7500 compared to noctua fans. Any help would be appreciated

The t7500 uses some higher airflow fans but the notcua's can easily match those so that shouldn't be a problem. If you are really uncertain just get some noctua industrials and you'll be more than fine.

 

[william p]

Which fans do you have? Which coolers do you have? If you don't have the bigger coolers any fan will have to work harder. U402F is the larger primary CPU cooler.https://www.serverworlds.com/dell-u402f-precision-t7500-primary-heatsink/
U016F is the smaller T5500 cooler that might be in there. https://www.serversupply.com/products/part_search/pid_lookup.asp?pid=130579&gclid=CjwKCAjw39reBRBJEiwAO1m0OV_-jlkx7E-8jANyqAvHf3o8Vk6Jtgyhgj6K9c6-pYEJYTKIvuLXGBoCprsQAvD_BwE
Some of them that came with 80W CPUs had aluminum finsinks that will be totally inadequate.
The 2ndary CPU cooler is the same for T5500 and T7500.
https://www.serverworlds.com/dell-w715f-precision-t5500-secondary-cpu-heatsink-w-fan-w567f-w344f/?utm_source=RET%20On%20Google%20Serp&utm_campaign=RLSA%20-%20Shopping&utm_medium=cpc&placement=&keyword=&device=c&gclid=CjwKCAjw39reBRBJEiwAO1m0Od5qx3lPXjUZHIUL4a6E6YpP0ftfh0i3v3mt9bwrBv9F0SI4VptItBoCf7AQAvD_BwE
If that has the 150x50mm AFC1512DG fan it's 235CFM and will be hard to match. The 2nd CPU has 2 fans, one for RAM and another for the CPU.
It's probably the smaller fans that are noisy. The AFC1512DG hardly ever speeds up.

 

[mipi]

I recently bought a Dell T7500 server with dual xeon x5690 and 96 GB of RAM for dirt cheap price.

Nothing to do with this thread but If you don't mind can you check RAM speed if it runs 1066 or 1333 MHz; According to the Technical Guide (page 29 and last page 37) with over 72GB, memory will only run at up to 800MHz:

http://i.dell.com/sites/content/business/solutions/engineering-docs/en/Documents/Precision-T7500-T5500-Technical-Guide.pdf

I too recently bought a T7500 with dual E5620 / 48GB RAM that was running at 1066 but by upgrading to X5690 now it runs at 1333 so I'm thinking of upgrading to over 72GB.