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Nah, seems like it won't fit in my old case, which is a pity, as the Fractal Design case I have is pretty good noise-wise, and I could live well without hot-swap disks where I have to pull out the front panel anyway.
Still, the fan is not LOUD on low RPMS, but my God, when it spins up, it's a vacuum cleaner! Felt like sitting beside an AC in high mode. Luckily, it only does that if the side panel is removed (for some reason). Hopefully it won't start to spin up even when I use it and it gets some load. I'm considering swapping out the CPU cooler anyhow, if I can fit a Noctua NH-U12 or similar to it somehow, Then I'll probably swap out the case cooler as well, or even remove it, have the CPU cooler blow out of the case, and have a separate fan on the HDDs.
Spent hours today getting the bloody thing updated, BIOS, iDRAC and whatnot, seeing as it hadnæt been done in ages, and so the built in update system wasn't working, and required a couple of pre-update-updates. Certainly not an ordinary desktop, this!
Still, the fan is not LOUD on low RPMS, but my God, when it spins up, it's a vacuum cleaner! Felt like sitting beside an AC in high mode. Luckily, it only does that if the side panel is removed (for some reason). Hopefully it won't start to spin up even when I use it and it gets some load. I'm considering swapping out the CPU cooler anyhow, if I can fit a Noctua NH-U12 or similar to it somehow, Then I'll probably swap out the case cooler as well, or even remove it, have the CPU cooler blow out of the case, and have a separate fan on the HDDs.
Spent hours today getting the bloody thing updated, BIOS, iDRAC and whatnot, seeing as it hadnæt been done in ages, and so the built in update system wasn't working, and required a couple of pre-update-updates. Certainly not an ordinary desktop, this!