Water Cooled Unraid

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Water Cooled Unraid

I've been running this server hardware for a bit (shoutout to serverbuilds.net) and recently decided that since every other computer I have is water cooled, this should be as well. It was running dual E5620 but that felt really ridiculous to water cool, so I was able to secure a pair of X5670's off eBay for like $40 total. The X5670's have just under double the passmark score of the E5620s and actually consumed power/put out any heat.

With this set up, the CPUs run room temp idle, average about 35C (+10C from ambient) and max out at 60C under sustained 100% load. Something fun I found out while stress testing the CPUs is just how inadequate the cooling is for the Northbridge (since it's designed for a 1U server chasis), as about 15 minutes in to the test the machine shut off because the Northbridge was about 115C. Whoops! I don't think this will ever happen under real circumstances, so I'm gonna do nothing and if it ends up being a problem I can probably just stick a fan on the side panel which would point it directly at the Northbridge and call it a day.
Color(s): Black
RGB Lighting? No
Theme: none
Cooling: Custom Liquid Cooling
Size: ATX
Type: General Build

Hardware

CPU
$ 99.98
Intel - Xeon X5670 (2x)
Socket: LGA 1366
Cores: 6
Motherboard
Supermicro - X8DTL-i
Chipset: A55
CPU Socket: LGA 1366
Size: ATX
Memory
$ 265.20
Samsung - Server Grade (1866MHz) (6x)
Type: DDR3
Capacity: 8 GB
Storage
ADATA - SP600
Form Factor: 2.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 256 GB
Storage
Western Digital - WD Green Desktop (2x)
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 4 TB
Storage
$ 545.97
Western Digital - WD Red NAS (3x)
Form Factor: 3.5 Inch
Interface: SATA 6 Gb/s
Capacity: 8 TB
PSU
$ 72.89
EVGA - 220-B3-0550-V1
Wattage: 550
Form Factor: ATX
Efficiency: 80+ Bronze
Case
$ 124.99
Fractal Design - Define R5 Black
Type: Mid-Tower
Side Panel: Solid
Cooling
$ 114.00
EKWB - CoolStream SE
Type: Custom Loop
Size (WxHxD): 240 mm (2 x 120 mm)
Cooling
$ 189.99
Cooling
$ 159.78
EKWB - Supremacy MX - Intel (2x)
Type: Custom Loop
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