Passive cooling meets mineral oil: Dual CPUs and Titan X
Posted: Sat Sep 24, 2016 10:43 am
Hallo silence aficionados!
My third passive build is even more powerfull than the previous once. This time with mieral oil. While it uese 3 fans, they are fully submerged and totally inaudible while the oil itself is passive cooled.
The specs are:
CPU: 2x E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7 GHz base clock, 3.5 GHz boost clock, 130 watts): used from Ebay
Coprocessor: Xeon Phi 31S1P (57 cores, 1.1 GHz, 8 GByte RAM, 270 watts): new from Ebay
RAM: 8x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C (8 GByte, DDR 3, 1600 MHz, ECC): used from Ebay
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS: new from retail (no used once available)
PSU: Corsair RM1000i: new from retail (I don't dare to use a used PSU)
GPU: GTX Titan X: when the GTX 1080 hype peaked, you got them for very low price, I couldnt't resist to buy one
SSD 1: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB: salvaged from my first build
SSD 2: Samsung 850 Evo 2TB: used
SSD 3: Samsung SM951 NVMe, 256 GByte: used
HDD1: WB Red 8 TB: when the helium can't escape, the oil can't come in right?
WLAN: TP-Link Archer T9E: new from retail
As you can see it has capable hardware and the power consumption peaks at about 900 watts. It can handle such heat load for about 2 hours than the thermal capacity is ued up. But when I disable the Xeon Phi or the GPU, the load is reduced to about 600 watts what it can handle 24/7. As my applications will use the GPU or the Xeon Phi but not both at once this is fine.
As usual, by big blog is over on LinusTechTips (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/53 ... il-cooling), so sorry for not replicating all the 12 pages here.
But if you have some questions feel freee to ask them here....
My third passive build is even more powerfull than the previous once. This time with mieral oil. While it uese 3 fans, they are fully submerged and totally inaudible while the oil itself is passive cooled.
The specs are:
CPU: 2x E5-2680 (8 cores, 2.7 GHz base clock, 3.5 GHz boost clock, 130 watts): used from Ebay
Coprocessor: Xeon Phi 31S1P (57 cores, 1.1 GHz, 8 GByte RAM, 270 watts): new from Ebay
RAM: 8x Hynix HMT31GR7CFR4C (8 GByte, DDR 3, 1600 MHz, ECC): used from Ebay
Motherboard: Asus Z9PE-D8 WS: new from retail (no used once available)
PSU: Corsair RM1000i: new from retail (I don't dare to use a used PSU)
GPU: GTX Titan X: when the GTX 1080 hype peaked, you got them for very low price, I couldnt't resist to buy one
SSD 1: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB: salvaged from my first build
SSD 2: Samsung 850 Evo 2TB: used
SSD 3: Samsung SM951 NVMe, 256 GByte: used
HDD1: WB Red 8 TB: when the helium can't escape, the oil can't come in right?
WLAN: TP-Link Archer T9E: new from retail
As you can see it has capable hardware and the power consumption peaks at about 900 watts. It can handle such heat load for about 2 hours than the thermal capacity is ued up. But when I disable the Xeon Phi or the GPU, the load is reduced to about 600 watts what it can handle 24/7. As my applications will use the GPU or the Xeon Phi but not both at once this is fine.
As usual, by big blog is over on LinusTechTips (https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/53 ... il-cooling), so sorry for not replicating all the 12 pages here.
But if you have some questions feel freee to ask them here....