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If I could find a internal server fan smaller then 20x20mm. I’d stick one next to my 1U CPU Cooler. But for some reason I can’t find one. Needs to be smaller then 20x20 because it would sit on top of the motherboard in a closed 1U server rack frame.

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2nsfw2furious@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
There are centrifugal fans that are quite flat but they intake airflow from a different axis they exhaust it from. Could still work

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- sykan@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Hmm I’ve gotta look into that, It’s Dell Poweredge R410 Server: looks like this: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/…/s-l1600.jpg.
  
  It would need to fit inbetween two heat sinks pretty snug.
  
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scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
You can use a larger fan and a shroud to redirect the air flow, similar to how laptops are cooled.

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- sykan@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I’d like to keep the cooling internal, I just have it sitting on a shelve next too other desktops k3s nodes.
  
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  - scutiger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    I just meant you can have an internal fan that’s larger than your heatsink, and a shroud to direct the airflow to it. It requires less vertical space, but more horizontal space.
    
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    sykan@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh yeah that makes sense, the board does come with a shroud, my fans just don’t have the power to push air through it well.
    
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Theoriginalthon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Have you had a look at PCI exhaust fans and cable ties as cheaper version of this akasa.co.uk/update.php?tpl=product/product.detail…

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- sykan@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  The board doesn’t come with any extra on it. There is one used but it doesn’t boot without that card. Not really sure what it does. It’s a Dell Poweredge R410 Server: looks like this: i.ebayimg.com/images/g/…/s-l1600.jpg
  
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  - aBundleOfFerrets@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Do you mean the card with the SODIMM next to the CPU? that is a raid card, and it looks like it is responsible for the front drive bays.
    
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    sykan@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Oh yeah it def had the SAS Backplane wires, I’d switched to using the SATA on board since it doesn’t have the same HD capacity limits. I think it was a max of 2tb with the backplane and I’m using a couple of 10tbs. Maybe their is some weird bios that requires it to be on board?
    
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