Hello, I'm looking for suggestions and opinions on the possibility of doing an external mounting of a standard case style fan to the pack of my PCI exhaust area. I have had almost no luck finding anything of the sorts so far. The one System I did find (http://nexustek.us/accessories/waveair ), only covers a single PCI slot, and could not be easily made to fit multiple of them in order to cool slots above or below it. The type of fan mounting solution I was hoping to find is essentially identical to the one in this picture:
Im not sure if such a thing is possible, as I have found absolutely NO information on this type of fan mounting. This is likely because in most cases your pci-e slots have video outputs that would be blocked/get in the way, however that is not the situation of my specific build. While not really important to the question, my system has 3 xeon phis ( similar to the picture that has two ) and I was hoping to add a baseline airflow to them in addition to the small high rpm fans I have mounted to their fronts. I dont have access to any sort of cheap metal machining, so a custom bracket is not going to be a valid suggestion, unless someone thinks it wouldn't actually be very expensive. Thanks in advance to anyone who has some suggestions to my problem.
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Perhaps I should elaborate the details of my circumstances then. As some people may be aware intel had a sale on thier 31S1p Xeon Phi co-processors. These specific cards are passive (read: no onboard fan) cooled PCI-e accelerators. They rely on an airflow within the case, and are not meant for workstations.
As such in order to cool these in my atx-medium tower I am using 40mm 22000 RPM fans, rigged up with some cardboard and duct tape.
Yes, its not very pretty, however with the Xeon Phi and the fan running at max power for 5 minutes, the temperature remained under 68 degrees Celsius. Naturally a 40mm 22000 RPM fan is going to be VERY loud. This is acceptable while the system is running under load, but even idle these cards produce a serious amount of heat. The minimum fan speed I have found to be necessary in order to keep the cards below 80 degrees while idle is around 35-40% which, with my fans, is still 7000-9000 RPM, still quite loud.
Essentially the reason for me wanting such a solution is to allow a more quiet fan to aid in cooling the cards while idle. My hope is that perhaps if I shift some of the airflow work to a larger quieter fan, I can turn the 40mm fans down to a much lower RPM when not using the cards. If such a thing is not something I can do cheaply, or if there is some glaring issue, I will simply forget about it and look into other ways to cool these things without so much noise in the future when I have more money. As it stands currently, the Xeon Phi's thermal dissipation requirements are being met.
Im not sure if such a thing is possible, as I have found absolutely NO information on this type of fan mounting. This is likely because in most cases your pci-e slots have video outputs that would be blocked/get in the way, however that is not the situation of my specific build. While not really important to the question, my system has 3 xeon phis ( similar to the picture that has two ) and I was hoping to add a baseline airflow to them in addition to the small high rpm fans I have mounted to their fronts. I dont have access to any sort of cheap metal machining, so a custom bracket is not going to be a valid suggestion, unless someone thinks it wouldn't actually be very expensive. Thanks in advance to anyone who has some suggestions to my problem.
############### FURTHER INFORMATION ##############
Perhaps I should elaborate the details of my circumstances then. As some people may be aware intel had a sale on thier 31S1p Xeon Phi co-processors. These specific cards are passive (read: no onboard fan) cooled PCI-e accelerators. They rely on an airflow within the case, and are not meant for workstations.
As such in order to cool these in my atx-medium tower I am using 40mm 22000 RPM fans, rigged up with some cardboard and duct tape.
Yes, its not very pretty, however with the Xeon Phi and the fan running at max power for 5 minutes, the temperature remained under 68 degrees Celsius. Naturally a 40mm 22000 RPM fan is going to be VERY loud. This is acceptable while the system is running under load, but even idle these cards produce a serious amount of heat. The minimum fan speed I have found to be necessary in order to keep the cards below 80 degrees while idle is around 35-40% which, with my fans, is still 7000-9000 RPM, still quite loud.
Essentially the reason for me wanting such a solution is to allow a more quiet fan to aid in cooling the cards while idle. My hope is that perhaps if I shift some of the airflow work to a larger quieter fan, I can turn the 40mm fans down to a much lower RPM when not using the cards. If such a thing is not something I can do cheaply, or if there is some glaring issue, I will simply forget about it and look into other ways to cool these things without so much noise in the future when I have more money. As it stands currently, the Xeon Phi's thermal dissipation requirements are being met.
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