Dell Precision T3610 this sounds crazy...
Posted: Mon Feb 19, 2024 9:42 am
One day just playing around with a decibel meter I started probing around taking measurements of where most of the fan noise was coming from around the computer. When in the vertical position it was loud 36dB loud. Then I thought what if I turn it to the way it would be seated if in a server room horizontally. To my astonishment that the fan noise quietened down to 28dB. Where the fan noise comes from the most is the cpu like others when we go to shopping for the Noctua Fan we see the single fan option and purchase that, Well lets just say that the single fan is just not capable of cooling and staying quiet thus the airplane taking off sound that is just plain annoying, Buy the dual as suggested https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00E1JGFA0?ta ... om_dp_vv_d . Adding a 3rd fan connected to the HDDFan1to the interior might seem like a good idea but if adding a 92mm will prevent the lid from being to close so either cut a hole big enough to run a wire to the inside connection or buy a 92mm USB fan and mount it to the outside though be careful that the screws closest to the lid can interfere with closing the case.
This was tested with a Nvidia GTX 760 (I could of stayed with the RTX 3070 but I wanted this to struggle as much as possible) after adding a second fan to the Noctua which lowered down to 26db and the game I tested with was World of Warships and averaging 55-67fps and the meter never got over 37db. A test of possibly installing Noctua Fans into the fan cage only yielded error messages though the fan would spin on occasion. Just stick to the stock Dell fans in front it would be really expensive and not worth the effort .
On a side note this could explain the vented lid on the T7910 with the use of Dell Liquid Cooler TMJK2 in that the unit would be laying horizontally in a commercial use.
Another observation is that the Noctua is not a good design if the vents were rotated 45 degrees into a diamond shape and the fans oriented as well that would create the room to be able install the full 256gb ram and use the shrouds
Additional testing to get around the Fan1 error was to run dual Noctua NF-A9 PWM fans on the connection unit booted right up with zero errors
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz (2693.51 MHz)
Memory: 196553 MB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760
This was tested with a Nvidia GTX 760 (I could of stayed with the RTX 3070 but I wanted this to struggle as much as possible) after adding a second fan to the Noctua which lowered down to 26db and the game I tested with was World of Warships and averaging 55-67fps and the meter never got over 37db. A test of possibly installing Noctua Fans into the fan cage only yielded error messages though the fan would spin on occasion. Just stick to the stock Dell fans in front it would be really expensive and not worth the effort .
On a side note this could explain the vented lid on the T7910 with the use of Dell Liquid Cooler TMJK2 in that the unit would be laying horizontally in a commercial use.
Another observation is that the Noctua is not a good design if the vents were rotated 45 degrees into a diamond shape and the fans oriented as well that would create the room to be able install the full 256gb ram and use the shrouds
Additional testing to get around the Fan1 error was to run dual Noctua NF-A9 PWM fans on the connection unit booted right up with zero errors
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2697 v2 @ 2.70GHz (2693.51 MHz)
Memory: 196553 MB
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760