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Can SpeedFan do something like; if GPU or temp hits 60C or 80c respectively ramp chassis fan to 100% for five mins?

Here're some temp measurements. Idle (silent): After an hour of FurMark GPU + FurMark CPU burn test (sounds like a hair dryer): One thing that bugs me is the fan curve of the be quiet fan: Which means the fan speed varies like so: I'd expected a much smoother fan profile, instead I see...

Well...finished, took all day and into the night. Quite possibly the trickiest machine build I've ever done. First things first, dry fit of the be quiet Silent Wings 3 fan and the ASRock mainboard. It's a tight fit for the mainboard and you really have no clearance either side: Dry fit of...

Yeah agreed, it's a gorgeous case. Just finished my build last night (3am!). This has to be the hardest build I've ever done (and that includes a dual CPU water cooled Xeon setup!). Working on this case is up there with replacing a home button on an iPhone 4. It's very fiddly. I have the...

Heheh, GMTA. Exactly the cooler I ordered. Plan on doing just that. Will report back on temps and noise levels. Aiming for a build as silent as a Mac Pro 2013 at idle and at load well...probably get quite a bit louder than Apple's boutique computer but we'll see. Wondering if anyone thinks it's...

Yep, HG confirmed as did a guy at SFF: https://smallformfactor.net/forum/threads/black-osmi-rev-2-build.1765/ Does require a lot of disassembly though.

History repeats itself. In 2003 I gave up waiting on a decent Opteron board and bought a Xeon system instead. In 2017 I'm going with a Z270 Intel setup after seeing the lottery that is buying an AM4 ITX motherboard. Ordered the following: Motherboard: ASRock Fatal1ty Z270 Gaming-ITX/ac PSU...

Thanks for all the feedback, just an update. Updated Brother drivers on macOS Sierra resolved the quality problem. Ensuring that BRScript is active rather than PostScript has made a big difference in speed. As an aside haven't been super happy with the quality (the odd splatter on the page) of...

Thanks for the tip, it narrowed things down. Originally I was using a Mac, with the Brother BRScript (PostScript emulation) driver. Printer starts showing 'Receiving job' instantly but takes a very long while before it actually prints. Tried printing via Windows 10 and it was lightning fast...

I try to repair and maintain my stuff way after the manufacturer stops supporting it. Have a Brother laser which I've had for nearly 10 years now. Whilst it's been relatively trouble free, it's taking 5 mins or more to print a page. Any ideas what part might have worn? The printer itself...

Few pics below. Never seen an SFX PSU before - so tiny! Case comes with a be quiet! Pure Wings 2 fan: Graphics card slot cover, seems a new addition: Spent far too much time on this, but basically wanted to calculate the distance between CPU and PSU to get an idea of how big a cooler I...

Case and power supply arrived. The case has great fit and finish and it came with a shiny double blanking plate in case you don't use a graphics card. Unfortunately the fan arrived with the impeller separated from the motor, must've been knocked loose in transit. Will photograph the case...

My rather ridiculous setup. 1x maxed out hex core Mac Pro - D700, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. 3x overpriced (and now endangered) Apple Thunderbolt displays. It's a good bit of kit, but not without its issues.

Case ordered (expensive stuff!). Also purchase the PSU. Holding fire on board and CPU until the AMD Ryzen launch at the end of this month. Want something a lot faster than my quad core Macbook which has a Geekbench of 4269 single threaded and 13879 multi threaded. That means at least a 6 or 8...

My rather ridiculous setup. 1x maxed out hex core Mac Pro - D700, 64GB RAM, 1TB SSD. 3x overpriced (and now endangered) Apple Thunderbolt displays. It's a good bit of kit, but not without its issues.

Thanks, good advice. Been keeping an eye on Ryzen and AMD do seem more likely to add ECC to their CPU/chipsets. That said the only ITX board I've seen ready at launch is from Biostar...might have to wait a few months at least if I want an ITX board from one of the more reputable vendors - think...

Thanks, very useful info Curiositie - I knew the MB came with a custom cooler but wasn't aware of that spec. I'll have to drum up a search for compatible coolers. Seems Noctua do three narrow ILM coolers, the NH-U9DX i4 (125mm), NH-U12DX i4 (158mm) and NH-D9DX i4 (110mm). The Osmi can take a...

This board is selling in the UK for £270 odd these days. Is it still worth buying? Looking to do a workstation build and I can't bring myself to buy a prosumer Z270 board with no ECC support!

After missing out on the A4-SFX batch this February I did some case hunting and came across the stunning Osmi case. Despite the oft mentioned difficulty of working with it, I've been quite taken with its looks. It's the best looking ITX case out there IMO. With that said I'm thinking of the...

I take your point but we do find the Synology Rackstation we currently have (RS2212+) plenty fast with SSD caching when compared to our 16x bay SSD SLOG equipped FreeNAS box. We'd be looking at the RS2416+ at a minimum which has a fairly powerful Atom (as powerful as Atoms get anyways!). Even...

Having been through 100s of hard drives for my business and my customer's needs I'd personally buy using price and warranty time as an indication of what the manufacturer themselves expect a user to get out of the drive as far as reliability goes. The old adage you get what you pay for applies...

Exactly. We have quite a few Supermicro's and also AC to cool the heat they put out. All together we'd save 1000W or so per annum roughly by swapping the Supermicro's for Synology's. In the UK 1W running 24/7 is roughly £1 per year (it's actually a bit more) hence the £1000 figure.

We use those all the time, should work fine in any supermicro chassis with hot swap bays.

We're an all FreeNAS shop and whilst it's been pretty good we're kinda finding the management, reporting and monitoring aspects of it leave a lot wanting. We use an older Synology RackStation for Apple time machine backups and management, monitoring etc. are a breeze comparatively. Of course...

Interesting post on the topic of ZFS, BTRFS and old school file system performance. Seems ZFS has slower performance than ext4 or xfs but is far more consistent in its performance than BTRFS which was all over the place...

Gone through something similar myself. Quiet-ish 1U server to a super quiet 4U Supermicro server to make the wife happy! So long as you purchase a SuperQuiet 4U Supermicro server you WILL have a whisper quiet system. It'll be inaudible. The one I specced has 4x 10k SAS drives, 4x hot swap...

Hi patrickdk, just curious but what equations are you using to derive those figures? thanks!

3MB/s... :eek: OK, so what kind of changes would I need to make to the below spec to saturate a gigabit link? (hypothetical question since the 40MB/s I'm getting is fine for my small ESXi setup). System spec is: Xeon 1220L v2 16GB DDR ECC Unbuffered 2x LSI 9211-8i HBAs ZIL - Intel S3700...

After adding an Intel S3700 100GB partitioned as an 8GB ZIL I'm only seeing writes hitting 40MB/s with sync enabled over NFS. With sync disabled they're closer to 90MB/s. Am I missing something?

Thanks for all the replies. Didn't realize that the L2ARC took such a toll on the ARC. A lot to consider when speccing a ZFS box. Seems a real balancing act. I have 4x4GB ECC Unbuffered and the board only has 4x memory slots so that's a bit of a bummer. The ZIL I purchased originally is an...

x16 drives in a single RAID-Z3 configuration. Thanks for the tip on the Intel S3700. Seems a great drive. I purchased an Intel 320 40GB for the ZIL but didn't read the specs properly - it only supports 40MB/s write! The S3700 100GB edition supports 200MB/s writes whereas the 200GB...

We have a small ESXi cluster in our office running on a FreeNAS array with sync disabled... I want to put a ZIL and L2ARC cache on the box and was wondering if purchasing two Samsung 840 Pro drives and partitioning both so p1 is mirrored for the ZIL and p2 is striped for the L2ARC. Does...

I'd double check this at the bottom of the motherboard product page: *** BIOS rev. 2.0 or above is needed to support new E3-1200 v2 CPUs, which supports PCI-E 3.0 & DDR3 1600.

I know there are a tonne of build check threads here but just wanted to run mine by in case I'm being dense and missing something: Hardware: Motherboard: Supermicro X9SCL+-F CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1220L V2 RAM: 16GB ECC HBA: 2x IBM M1015 in IT mode Case: 16 bay SATA/SAS hotswap chassis HD...

It was probably overkill, since we're running Debian linux and hardware RAID so the CPU spends most of its time idling. That said it does hit 50% usage if netatalk or smb are serving up files. Thanks, great suggestions. I was under the impression though that a SATA drive when in sleep mode...

Raw storage for most of it, but IOPS for virtual machines over NFS. Very handy being able to put one in Maintenance Mode and have all VMs transfer automatically to the other so there's nearly zero downtime. Assume you mean dual socket. We just bought the machines as specced by the vendor for...

Thanks for the replies. I'm very tempted to go for Synology all the way, but a part of me doesn't want to give up the flexibility of rolling our own NAS boxes. Does a spec like this seem sensible? Supermicro X9SCL+-F Motherboard Intel Xeon E3-1220LV2 CPU 2x4GB ECC Memory Reading...

We're a small shop but we've been running in our office server room a pretty nice vSphere setup with a few 16 disk Supermicro servers acting as storage nodes and two Supermicro 1U dual socket servers running ESXi. It's all fully loaded and man, when it's all cranking the blue lights on those...

We've rolled our own Debian+Samba+Active Directory NAS boxes for a while now but the man power required to configure and maintain them is becoming a little too much. We've tried a few NAS distros in vmware and FreeNAS seems good. Openfiler seems a bit flaky. Openmediavault looks absolutely...

Thanks for the replies, I figured there must be a difference in the circuitry on the two ports. Wishful thinking on my part but it would have been nice to be able to use both DVI ports at the same time! :mad: I hear the Quadro 4000 (6800 Ultra with two external TMDS DVI transmitters) doesn't...