Quiet Supermicro 846 - How to make Supermicro 846 Quiet | Silent Server Fan Upgrade
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 ส.ค. 2020
- In this video, I show the upgrade process I took to replace system fans in a Supermicro 846 Server Chassis with new quiet fans, replace the power supply, and replace the existing thermal paste. The new fans were purchased from Supermicro. The new power supply was purchased from eBay. I picked up the thermal paste from my local Micro Center.
I decided to take the project on since moving to a 1 bedroom apartment. The noise level of this server was just too annoying to have in my kitchen. By upgrading the power supply and the internal fans, I cut the decibel level of the server in half. While performing this upgrade, I decided it would be a good idea to replace the exiting thermal paste and clean out the internal components and drives.
Parts purchased for this upgrade:
1x Thermal Paste (Optional) - amzn.to/3avtC21
5x Supermicro 80mm Hot-Swappable Middle Axial Fan (FAN-0104L4) - amzn.to/2DPli1r
1x Supermicro PWS-920P-SQ 920W 1U - amzn.to/312DsFv
Before the upgrade the server was producing noise at about 80 db. After the upgrade, the noise level was dropped to about 45 db.
OMG that vacuum noise killed me.
=)
I jumped. lol
sheeeeesh
Yeah and sounded a LOT harder then his old server fans.
Thanks for the tip with the FAN-0104L4!
This is way better than jury-rigging Noctua 120mm in place of the OG fan wall, because you can still make effective use of the air-guiding baffle.
A wall of Noctua just blows all around the CPUs with only a small volume of air actually cooling them, unless you can jury-rig a custom baffle as well.
I'm definitely going with this approach!
Great video, just what I was looking for to make my supermicro a little quieter! :)
Awesome!
enjoyed this.
Nice vid. FYI, that looks to be a SAS2 backplane. Should be BPN-SAS2-846EL1. For anyone else reading this, and if you are leaving the stock SM board, log into your IPMI and just turn your fan speed down :)
You are correct, I misspoke! Good catch. I had worked with the IPMI settings quite a bit before doing this upgrade and can say that it still made a big difference!
Rhys Powell absolutely. Still love any video with SM chassis.
One benefit of using SM fans is the BMC doesn't freak out about fan speed.
Looking cool ! Well done -0-
Thanks!
This is a great video. I have a CSE-836 chassis on the way and mercifully the eBay ad notes PWS-920P-SQ power supplies! Perhaps some of the other fans have been replaced as well, we shall see! Thanks for sharing.
Have fun, it truly is a great server!
Well - it's here and the SQ supplies are nice but the fans are the FULL VOLUME ones. I set the fans to Optimal in IPMI but I think I'll be replacing some or all in the near future. :p Clearly not suitable for a living room as-is.
@@JaimeZX lmfao I feel your pain since I have the same unit with "Super Quiet" PSU .....its still named "the beast" and locked in a closet to make the noise tolerable...looking at moving to the garage now.
Just curious how does Unraid handle unscheduled power outages?
Your wife/gf is happy to hear the refrigerator.Congrats its gonna be a Good night tonight......
These fan housings should be capable of housing any standard 80mm fans including noctua's, that's the only housing type though from Supermicro that this can be done with unfortunately, others have a plastic notch that will prevent many other fans to fit in - you would need to replace or modify the fan connector though.
Another crazy way would be to find the formfactor and size equivalents of different specification fans, they are definitely out there, so many types of them from so many manufacturers - which is a problem, can easily spend days looking just through single manufacturer catalog and trying to find on internet various options which are actually available for purchase.
Would you mind sharing the partnumber of your power distribution board? I bought an SQ-PSU but my PS board is too old...
Thanks. Do you have any ideas if the fan will fit 847 model?
channels don't often do enough of a total hands-on breakdown of this kind of commercial equipment, I'm looking into a silent server with high volume for my in-home office. Thanks dude, subbed
Did you have to adjust the fan thresholds? I keep getting errors about fans spinning too low. If you did how did you fix it?
I need to do a similar operation on my Dell Poweredge..... not sure if the same parts are compatible. But I will bust that server open soon.
Supermicro chassis also usually have a fan control option in the BIOS. I've utilized that on all my Supermicro builds. Dell has gotten pretty good about fan noise since their second generation 720s as well. In addition, it is very rare to see the load split 50/50 on the power supplies - you'll more often see something like 80/20, 70/30, etc. depending on your setup. It tends to fluctuate between power supplies as well; so, one power supply isn't always carrying a majority of the load.
Thanks for the comment - I played with the settings in the IPMI controller and wasn't happy with the results. The quietest mode available was "Standard" and that was still too loud. I know the lights out controller isn't the newest, but I did update the firmware on it and the motherboard, with no improvement on the noise levels, and no new features in the management.
Ultimately the most noise reduction came from the replacement of the PSU. I appreciate your correction on load distribution, as I was speaking casually in the video and could have led to some misinformation.
I know this a really old video. With that said, my 720XD is desktop office quiet unless it's going full tilt. This is on the stock fan curve.
@@rdsii64 Yes - the xD is their second generation of the 720 series [actually, most of the series with an xD after it), per my comments. :P
Old video, but I have a question. If I get noctuas, couldn't i put them in the front shroud like you did with the rear ones?
Yes, in fact someone made a bracket on thingiverse if you know someone with a 3d printer it can be printed for you to mount the fans on!
Where i can find these vacuum fan? Like what's the name of these fans
You can slip the Nactuas into the hotswap frames. I've done it with a Supermicro case that is much like yours.
What is the model of the air blower??? Gotta get me one of those...
really tho same here
Did you check the CPU temp before and after the swap? Just wondering what kind of temp difference you had? Thanks
CPU Temperatures before were in the 50C range. After, they floated between 60C - 70C. This is why I went ahead and purchases active CPU coolers and replaced them later on (See the other video about that) Once I replaced the heatsinks with active ones and reconfigured my IPMI controls, the CPUs don't exceed 60C even under full load.
I just bought the same chassis and was about to do the whole 120 fan wall but I like this solution much better thanks. What CPU's are you running? I have a single E5-2620 but was looking to upgrade to a better dual CPU just wonder what your running.
@@pm240sx1 Intel® Xeon® CPU E5-2630L is what I am running currently running. Before installing the CPU coolers, the temps were getting a little hot, so if you do go this route, make sure you plan to upgrade the CPU cooling!
4:10 - Interesting... I was looking inside the supermicro 2U X8DT3 server rack and was telling myself is that seriously a USB port built into the center of the mobo at the side... was curious for what it was used for. This explains it.
I'm looking to do this with my 847. You said in a comment below that you needed to upgrade to active cooling for the CPUs. What about the HDDs, what'd those temps look like after you switched?
My HDDs temps went up a bit, but not anything terrible. The only drives that run hot are the internally mounted SSDs and that is because of the ambient heat from being mounted on top of the PSUs. IIRC the drives temp increased by like 3-5 degress F.
@@rhyspowell4036 It's been years, but do you remember how many drives you had in the server?
LOL WAAAYYY TOOO NUCH!
I don't see a rack in your videos. Do you just stand the server on the floor on its side as pictured at the end of this video? Just curious if it has caused you any problems that way (unusual overheating, unstable so it falls, etc)?
Thinking of getting one but I would have to put on side to make it fit in the only wife approved location I have.
I have a smaller 2U server case with 16" inch depth. I have no problem using it without a rack. It's currently on the floor placed next to a wall.
This is SAS2 backplane, not SAS3 as you've mentioned in the beginning of the video... HBA card looks like H200 which is SAS2 as well.
For myself I got CSE-847, removed stock fans and put 3x 120 fans in the empty space between HDD and the bracket where stock fan's were.
so what does a kitchen server do ?
LOL
Is this compabile with Cse-829U?
Looks like that is a 2U server, this 846 is 4U. I suspect you may be able to find quiet fans that you can replace on that chassis but I am not familiar enough with it to make a suggestion!
Damn nice server. Hope I can get my hands on one soon. Pretty expensive hobby.
It is truly an addiction! But a fun one nonetheless!
Who downloads porn on a server . Not me 🤥.😂
team kitchen server ^5
Would recommend updating the video description to call out that after the fact you noticed the CPUs overheating and you needed additional modifications (and in turn spending more $). Some folks might find this video and blindly follow it without realizing there is a follow-up video.
significantly underplayed the feats of strength required to remove the fan from the green housing
If I delete my porn I won't need HDDs anymore 😐
id rather not hear the LOUD blower
Using a smartphone to read decibels is just stupid, each smartphone says something different, just use a digital decibels meter, but ok.
While you aren't wrong, I wasn't about to go buy a digital meter just for this test but thanks for watching!
@@rhyspowell4036 But you can use it for many other tests, and they are cheap, but i see, that the last video you did, is 10 months old, so yeah.
@@AmigaWolf lol what is the regular IT person gonna do with digital dB meter on a common enough basis? common enough being enough to justify the price …i can’t come up with any good uses ..i’m not that creative tho hence my question to you.