Tag: cooling
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Challenge of Two Cases
Small and portable PCs are an attractive computing option. Unfortunately, they are at odds with much of the technical networking world. If you merely need one large graphics card or one beefy 10GbE networking card, you can get away with your MiniITX form factor system. Contrast that with doing WiFi and wired network testing: often…
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Network Cards Suck
At least, on consumer motherboards. I have a 4ghz Haswell on a Asus z97 mobo. Wanted to reboot it to check on fan profiles. Realized it was not letting me into uefi BIOS and when it would get there my mouse was all locked up. Now I’m in a situation where I need to make…
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Replacing a loud fan in my home ZFS NAS
The blue-LED fan I have in my ZFS on Linux NAS is a bit louder than the other fans that I’ve been hoping for. I am going to replace it with a 600rpm fan. You will notice that I have drilled extra ventilation into the top case panel. Notice the clear-plastic fan. It…
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