Den mån 29 apr. 2024 kl 15:41 skrev Peter J. Philipp <p...@delphinusdns.org>: > > 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.
I run some Pro 8s in a small rack where I have ripped out the internal fan of the edgerouters, and then I put one single large fan behind the rack of Pro8s which cools several of them at reasonable speed. -- May the most significant bit of your life be positive.
