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6 fans using more power than my whole gaming PC? nah, my GPU alone can use 430 watt with 15% increased power limit, and my CPU can draw about 230 watt stock, but both components are underclocked for way better efficiency, yet still pretty damn powerful. R9 7950X and RX 7900 XTX

A cool feature for a v2 of your fan card would be PWM control from software. Seeing as you're using a PCIE slot, you should take advantage of its ability to communicate with the software

Very nice plug and play solution. Years ago I had a PCI slot fan, literally a piece of plastic shaped like a PCI slot and bracket, 2 80mm fans Anna's a molex connector.

A high-pressure radial fan would likely be better, and an open-source backplate with plastic top cover for use with tape to better-direct the flow path without accounting for every card model… _ever_ would probably be the most nice way of handling this. The reason why use of an axial fan _could_ be better is because with a thermo-couple and board to figure all the PWM magic out, a fan could be baseboard-controlled and less copper could be required for that.

There is a lot of space below my NIC, so I ziptied a 90mm fan parallel to the mainboard to it. That keeps it below 70C, which is good enough for me and most importantly: quiet

This video is great, even though I'm not in the market for such a device right now. Do you have another channel on RUclips? If not, I hope you keep uploading videos here, because I love your style and presentation.

I really like your PCIe fan card. Well done, I just might get two once I install some network cards for my home setup!

I had random corruptions on my zfs pool. I thought i got a bad batch of drives and replaced some of them. It was the HBA overheating all along. Oops.

That's a very clean solution, I like it! I wonder if you could fit one or two 50mm fans into a half-height version. Would be useful for 2U chassis. You can fit a decent CPU cooler in those but the PCIe cards always suffer without server grade airflow.

Has the rubber that you clip ever gotten bigger when it sees the only fans bin?

any plans to make other sizes like a 120 or a 40mm with a low profile bracket for sff use?

PC fan: "Nah I'm just chillin" Server fan: "How you dare say I'm loud! I'll f'n kill you"

now put in a GFC0812DW-TD2G fan on the pciefancard

right sure let me just get my hands on some SFP+ gear and a whole NAS before I come back and watch the rest

That server fan, omg 😂😂😂

your alternative to this is ghetto cooling (off a fan header or molex and mounting the fan to the case in some way or something else dependent upon placement.

The Blowimatron strikes again.🤣

I'll be more interested when a smart/managed multi-gig switch drops below $150 (transceivers included). Unless I'm willing to bite the bullet and get a multi-gig switch with 24 ports to upgrade my network backhaul/spine a smaller managed (LACP is a required feature) multi-gig is my only alternative. Otherwise it's pearls before swine.

What a overly complicated way to ziptie a fan in the case pointing at the card

😬 if you've got that much storage, please, please tell me you're using ECC memory, because even error-correcting filesystems like ZFS won't save you from bit flips that happen _before_ the data gets written or _after_ it gets read from disk. risk of bit flips scales fairly logarithmically with RAM die memory density, and linearly with number of bytes R/W from RAM. I got bitten by that with a NAS that corrupted a good 20% of my data before I noticed, learning the hard way what ECC memory and good backups were for!

I just strap a 5cm fan with some cable ties to my 10Gb SFP+ card's heat sink, keep it well below 65 even when it's summer, I don't like the idea of using a PCIE slot just for a fan.

1:15 i lost it LMAO

You could experiment using a blower fan for this bracket. Never undestood why blower fans on desktops are such a niche idea to this day, specially when systems such as yours and Mini-ITX builds'd benefit a lot from these, imo.

Dang I thought you were going to have a pcie bracket that could Mount that server fan and provide the appropriate power for it since normal fan headers don't work. Still a fun video though, and now I know if I ever have a overheated pcie component I can get a fun little kit for the fan

Can we go back to that server fan and maybe feed it some carrots?

This fan is crap, it just stirs the air inside the case. If you've already accepted losing one of the case slots, you'd better buy an exhaust turbine: it picks the hot air right from the heatsink and blows it away. And it's also much quieter. I've once bought one to cool the pcix raid controller.

One thing the BTX form factor got right was switching the side of the case the motherboard was mounted to. This had the effect of flipping the PCI/PCIe cards so that their heatsinks were facing up. Unfortunately a lot of the other things about BTX were designed to address specific shortcomings of Intel's NetBurst architecture.

Great vid, I'm leaving a like and a subscription. Can you please share the specs of your server?

there had to be a woke reference; nicgiga and dyslexic what? you can't escape these wokes, even in computing now

you can take any old fan and screw it into the heatsink with one screw. that's what everyone does. two screws can work better but they're luxury.

Why not just buy a NAS with 10gb built in?

7:54 is that the "Only Fans" I seen people taking about on social media? 🤣😄 looks kinda normal eh...

3:00 I could have mistaken it for F1 engine sound if I wasn't watching 🤣😄

Mate, I saw the "nic-gigga" product you showed and my dislexia immediately messed up the name, and within 10 seconds you called me out XD.

$59, LOL. SMH. I've been looking for something like this for years, and when they do, it's as expensive as the damn network card. I'll just continue to zip tie my $5 fan to my card for free, thanks.

First time I saw a server with what looked like a vacuum cleaner hose attached I was dumbfounded. I thought someone was jury-rigging the thing.

Ya I just Zip Tied an 80mm fan in between both my expansion cards and have it hard wired to Molex so it's at 100% all the time. Why buy extra parts when 2 Zip Ties work. Really cool bracket though.

Random idea: put some old GPU above the network card and increase the speed manually so it cools the network card underneath it.

Very COoL. I haven't seen anything that exciting since a girl scout showed up at my door last summer, inebriated. Just saying Thank you for the video. Very sub-Worthy :)

The PCIce card costs $59.00! Just buy the chealy brackets and plug the fans directly to the motherboard or fan controller.

The one and only thing I don't like about my new AMD motherboard is it only has 2 PCIE slots. I use one for video and the other for a 7 tb NVME drive. The 7tb drive could use a cooling fan.

Just put a fan with 2 screws on the card...

You... do know Arctic S2048 are 40x40x28mm "server fans" at 6K and 15K RPMS, using normal 4 pin fan connectors, right? Not quite a delta screamer, and you don't want to stack them on the motherboard(get yourself an aquacomputer quadro or at least a sata powered fan hub instead). But they're good for using server cards in consumer/workstation cases.

I use gigabit because... I'm not schlepping 4k raw footage around?

Powering the fan from the pcie slot itself is pretty slick.

I have like 10 of those cards spread and a 40mm noctua fan attached attached to the heat sink with some zip ties is more than enough to cool those cards. You don’t even need more than 50% fan speed

Fantastic idea and one that can be expanded upon. Most motherboards come with proprietary fan controller ICs and proprietary software because of which fans becomes a PITA to handle if you're not using the built in software or something goes wrong with the fan headers etc. An open source fan controller design which is powered from the PCIe slot (powerful and clean) would be very useful for those who might want to run multiple fans on their servers and perhaps even use a more complex microcontroller to remotely monitor fan operation and temperatures etc.

The pcie fan bracket is $60. WTF dude! Great idea but really!

If you own a 3D Printer, I would advise simply looking around for fan adapters for your size heatsink. I tried sharing here but RUclips deletes my comments if I actually give some useful information here.

If you own a 3D Printer, I would advise simply looking around for fan adapters for your size heatsink. I bought Intel x540 cards with super loud 30mm (!) fans on them, and printed thingiverse thing 4741548 to attach larger fans with way more airflow, and then printed thingiverse thing 6732272 for my passively cooled cards