I replaced my 8 Pro fans with Noctua units and I'm pretty happy with them; they came with several adapters that allow you to choose the speed of the fans.
Converting to passive cooling, if you have enough room on the cabinet and are a proficient user of drills, I'd try to (i) remove the heatsink of the CPU, (ii) drill a hole on the top case, (iii) put a little wire to measure the distance from the case to the surface of the CPU, (iv) go to the hardware store to get some aluminium profiles, (v) cut and pile then up the distance between cover and CPU and there you go. With a little luck the case top will go HOT, and the CPU will chump happily. No guarantees implied (take into account I live in a quite cold place xDDD). Regards! El lun, 29 abr 2024 a las 15:41, Peter J. Philipp (<p...@delphinusdns.org>) escribió: > Hi, > > What sort of things can I do to keep an edgerouter 8 cool that doesn't have > fans? I'm ready to pull the fans out of it because they have a certain > harmonic that makes me physically ill. But I like the octeon! > > So short of throwing it out I'm thinking of pulling the plug (on the fans). > Would running it with 1 core instead of multicpu keep it cooler? Would it > be enough? Should I glue some rasperry pi heatsinks to the CPU? I have a > few extra. > > These are the 2nd fans on this thing they were supposed to be quieter but > they still annoy me. I understand I'm a very sensitive person to noise and > vibration (ever since I was a baby). > > Other than running off one core only to keep thermals low, is there any > other stuff one can do like step the processor cycles down? > > Any help is much appreciated. The ER-8 right now idles a lot anyhow and > I plan on using it for the 8 RJ45 ports. > > Best Regards, > -pjp > > -- > my associated domains: callpeter.tel|centroid.eu|dtschland.eu| > mainrechner.de > >
