Den mån 29 apr. 2024 kl 15:41 skrev Peter J. Philipp <pjp@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.
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