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Ah I understand what they were getting at. If you're using a server motherboard in a regular 1-4u case this becomes a different issue entirely. I'm using a supe

Ah I understand what they were getting at. If you're using a server motherboard in a regular 1-4u case this becomes a different issue entirely. I'm using a supermicro x9 with dual xeons in a upright enthoo pro case with it's own fans. You're right about the management controller freaking out because the IPMI threshold settings are expecting the supermicro 3 fan assembly instead of different case fans. Fortunately with some tweaking and ipmi tool you can effectively use fans that have a much larger or smaller range of acceptable RPMS without your management controller thinking the fans have gone down into lower non recoverable. Right now my noctuas are running about 1000rpm and keeping the Xeons around 40c (under load this will increase with minimal db)

paulmd 7y ago
My solution was to take some spare Noctua low-noise adapters (basically inline resistors with fan connectors attached) and just drop the max fan speed. The fan controller can freak out all it wants, it can never go above about half rpms, and it still generates a noticeable breeze through the hotswap bays. My CPU is a 7100 (ECC supported!) with a Noctua L9i so I never have problems there either. Power draw is a little high at about 70W with 8 3.5" drives spinning, but most of that is the HDDs (rule of thumb is 5W per drive) and the alternative would be spinning them down, which isn't ideal.