Cramming a i7-4930 into 1u chassis... crazy?

[titoburritotaco]

Hey guys.. im planning/hoping i can cram a i7-4930 CPU into a 1u chassis case and hopefully with adequate cooling, this rig will survive?

looking into this Dyantron Heatsink/fan 1u setup...
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006MNC4P8/...=IX003YZLML0TO

this 1u chassis from Athena Power w/400w PSU..
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16811192212

and a Asus micro-ATX MoBo...

i would love to hear anyone/everyone's thoughts and opinions...
i'm hoping to build a high-power render node(s) for my home office..

Or if anyone knows of a good 1u liquid cooling solution that could work for this hot CPU...

 

[DesiPower]

I would not have balls to do it, but go for it, let us know how it goes...

 

[dma0991]

Definitely doable as the heatsink states it can handle up to 150W, while the Core i7 4930K is only 130W. That is also assuming that you have a room where it is chilled, much like a server room.

Crazy? Definitely. It would sound like a leaf blower 24/7, and I don't want that anywhere near my home.

 

[titoburritotaco]

haha... yeah im expecting it to sound loud as hell..
Fortunately, ill be dropping these in my garage inside a 24u server cabinet..
And will be dropping in a AC cooler directly into the cabinet...

 

[jacktesterson]

haha... yeah im expecting it to sound loud as hell..
Fortunately, ill be dropping these in my garage inside a 24u server cabinet..
And will be dropping in a AC cooler directly into the cabinet...

you'll be fine

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Gotta tell ya. . . .

I always thought I was pretty "extreme." I did a lot of "stuff." I had a home-LAN in 1993. Once I had accumulated three or four systems old and new, I began to think that I NEEDED that much tech armament. Among my friends, I spoke with authority, or so I thought.

But this place?! These forums?! I can't believe sometimes what members come up with!! Sure!! I was going to build an IB-E system, and I've chosen now to wait for Haswell. But I didn't plan on putting it in something smaller than Richard Reid's shoes!! Talk about calculated brinksmanship!! -- That cooler!!

I want to see the OP do it!!

 

[PliotronX]

I've worked on Xeon hexacores in 1U I think its possible especially since you won't be using poor quality thermal paste.

 

[VirtualLarry]

Crazy? Yes. Doable? Probably.

Let us know how it goes.

 

[BrightCandle]

I have used that dynatron blower on a 4670 in a 1U chassis and it holds the CPU to about 65C at full load. Its possible it could hold a 4930 below throttling temperature but you definitely need to make sure the case itself is well fed with cool air and expelled. My build was 2x 4670s on MITX motherboards in a dual case and it gets warm in there and that is a similar amount of power consumption overall.

 

[Carson Dyle]

You're not going to want to be in the same room as a 1U server with sufficient cooling for a high-end CPU.

I have my doubts about that Dynatron HSU and fan. There's not much fan there and there's not much heatsink. Typically, a blower fan in a well-designed 1U chassis will be the full height of the case and blow through a heatsink designed to maximize the vertical room available in a 1U case. In many better servers there would also be a custom shroud that directs the airflow through the CPU heatsink(s).

 

[heymrdj]

I don't see why it wouldn't work. I ran my college test lab on IBM x336's. They had dual 3.6Ghz 110W Xeon Processors. These are 1U 2x3.5 drive (or 4x2.5" drive) servers, and yes when worked hard they were loud as hell. They pretty much idled at 4K plus RPM fan speeds, and could hit 9K RPM at full load. They each had 14 fans, not including the fans in the power supplies .

http://ark.intel.com/products/27091/64-bit-intel-xeon-processor-3_80-ghz-2m-cache-800-mhz-fsb

 

[dave_the_nerd]

We have plenty of equipment in 1U and 2U chassis in the labs at work that pull at least that much power (that's what it comes down to, really, watts in, heat out.)

Of course, we also have earplug dispensers by all the doors...

 

[Rakehellion]

It's doable. Server racks are designed to hold chips that are much more powerful than that

 

[BrightCandle]

If you go to a colo they typically want a machine to be in and around 0.5A, they charge you extra for everything above that. Its kind of expensive to host these higher power consumption machines unfortunately.

 

[lsv]

It will work, it will just be loud. This is no different than fast enterprise class chips in a 1U chassis.

 

[Carson Dyle]

It will work, it will just be loud. This is no different than fast enterprise class chips in a 1U chassis.

Yes, there is a difference, and it could be a large one. It all comes down to how difficult that CPU and motherboard are to cool.

If you look at enterprise-class 1U servers, say from HP or Dell or even SuperMicro, they're all purpose-built, not assembled from a random 1U chassis, a standard motherboard and an aftermarket heatsink and fan. The design differences are often subtle - the positioning of the CPU(s) on the motherboard, the location of internal fans, the location of chipsets, the orientation of heatsink fins.

Even most of the whitebox 1U servers that I've assembled over the years have started with a chassis built to work with a specific motherboard from a specific manufacturer, and often included 1U heatsinks for the CPUs.

 

[lsv]

Yes, there is a difference, and it could be a large one. It all comes down to how difficult that CPU and motherboard are to cool.

If you look at enterprise-class 1U servers, say from HP or Dell or even SuperMicro, they're all purpose-built, not assembled from a random 1U chassis, a standard motherboard and an aftermarket heatsink and fan. The design differences are often subtle - the positioning of the CPU(s) on the motherboard, the location of internal fans, the location of chipsets, the orientation of heatsink fins.

Even most of the whitebox 1U servers that I've assembled over the years have started with a chassis built to work with a specific motherboard from a specific manufacturer, and often included 1U heatsinks for the CPUs.

It's easy to find 1U passive heatsinks for a certain socket.

The problem is that 1U Chassis tend to have a million 40mm fans in front or some fancy blower design - making them super loud.

Which is exactly what OP got in a number of replies.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

Crazy? Definitely. It would sound like a leaf blower 24/7, and I don't want that anywhere near my home.

This brings back memories of 60mm black-label Deltas. Those sons of b*tches were LOUD