Question Upgrade CPU heatsinks when going from 80W to 135W dual Xeons?

[iangreenhalgh]

Hi folks

I'm about to upgrade the lowly E5-2609 Xeons in my Lenovo Thinkstation D30. These have a TDP of 80W each.

The E5-2667s I'm going to replace them with have a much higher TDP of 130W each.

What I'm wondering is if the stock heatsinks Lenovo supplied will handle the hotter chips?

I have searched and can't find any pictures showing any alternative coolers fitted to a D30 other than upgrades done by users so it seems that Lenovo supplied the same quite weedy looking dual heatpipe coolers with all D30s regardless of the CPUs fitted.

Stock coolers:

 

[lvt]

it seems that Lenovo supplied the same quite weedy looking dual heatpipe coolers with all D30s regardless of the CPUs fitted.

You can verify that by running the PC on the stock cooler for a while, if the temp is normal you can use it.

 

[iangreenhalgh]

Sounds like a good idea. Can you recommend a suitable programme for monitoring CPU temps? I've never used one before.

 

[hotaru.hino]

If you're running Windows, HWiNFO. If Linux, there's various utilities but which one to use depends if you're using a DE or not.

 

[iangreenhalgh]

I'll give HWiNFO a try, cheers!

 

[iangreenhalgh]

I installed HWiNFO then monitored the temp of cpu0 While I ran the CPU Mark in Performance Test 10 as that should load up the processor. The temperature at idle was 43C, it went upto 77C briefly during the benchmark.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7KskyAhD5dtI5yzz-UG79S02N13SKrz/view?usp=sharing

 

[lvt]

I installed HWiNFO then monitored the temp of cpu0 While I ran the CPU Mark in Performance Test 10 as that should load up the processor. The temperature at idle was 43C, it went upto 77C briefly during the benchmark.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1s7KskyAhD5dtI5yzz-UG79S02N13SKrz/view?usp=sharing

43°C idle is very normal.

If you run a benchmark, the temp will go up.

 

[iangreenhalgh]

Of course, that's why I ran the benchmark - to place a high load on the CPU to see how high it pushed the temp. I think 77C is within the safe limit.

Maybe I need to do a more thorough test where the CPU is under high load for a longer period.

 

[lvt]

This is a dual E5 2690, the TDP is a little higher than yours (135W).

Do you see any difference in the cooling fans's thickness? The fans seem to measure 70mm x 25mm.

 

[iangreenhalgh]

Those are exactly the same coolers as I have fitted. Only difference is that I don't have the momory coolers.

So if they will keep 2690s cool, they will be fine for my 2667s.

I'm considering buying some memory coolers, they are 20ukp a pair, as I have all 16 slots populated (16x8Gb=128Gb)

 

[lvt]

I think passive cooling is fine for the RAM.

 

[iangreenhalgh]

Yeah, I've never had active cooling on the memory of any PC I've owned and never had any issues.