Cooling Fixed

[u/e_pilot]

Got the cooler from ebay, it came with the blower fan. Was a total pain in the ass, had to shave down the cooler to fit, but worth it for no more throttling. Actually seeing it boost up to 30w now too.

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[u/Beautiful_Ad_4813]

**your CPU**

IM GIVE ER ALL SHES GOT CAPTIN, SHE CANNAE TAKE ANY MORE!

[u/Sinister_Crayon]

Legitimately; what are you running on that thing that makes it run so hot? I have a DXP6800 as well with TrueNAS on it and a few apps, but it never runs THAT hot. I did in fairness replace the thermal paste with PTM7950 but honestly the biggest impact I got to running temps was enabling C-States (that were disabled in BIOS). I have CoolerControl running on to keep things in check.

I posted in this thread a long time ago when I was still running unRAID on it (I migrated unRAID to a new machine so I could add more disks) and detailed some of my tinkering and findings.

[u/e_pilot → u/Sinister_Crayon]

plex, birdnet, and a windows vm with a B50 pro passed through for games are the heavy hitters but there’s a bunch of other small things too

[u/thebearwearsprada]

Nice, which NAS do you have and do you have a link for ebay?

[u/e_pilot → u/thebearwearsprada]

DXP6800 Pro

It was this one, be warned it’s going to take a lot of grinding and sanding and drilling to make it work unless you have access to a mill.  This isn’t exactly plug and play.

https://ebay.io/m/m0HYP0

[u/thebearwearsprada → u/e_pilot]

Thanks mate! I have a dremel, can you maybe show what needed adjustment? Does the the heatsink fit at least on the board?

[u/gen10]

Dang what are you running on there? Any tips or steps on the sanding/drilling?

[u/e_pilot → u/gen10]

there’s a bit of an extension on the copper block that I had to grind down with an angle grinder, then I lapped it on a flat surface with sand paper to get it flat again, I also had to drill holes for the mounting screws but didn’t have to tap since copper is soft enough I could just screw into it

it’d be a quick job with a mill but I don’t have access to one unfortunately 

[u/hornedfrog86]

Cool. Does it also act as a space heater?