Nice! Definitely stick a fan above the SAS drives and below the CD drive. The area at the top of the PCIe cards likes to hold air without much flow. The extra fan blows right at that area.
GREAT video man!! On a side note, you can control the fans through the idrac using IPMI. I have a T330, T630, and T430 that all have controllable fans programmatically. It cuts down on the noise when you set the fans to 10% of power but you have to monitor the heat to make sure nothing overheats. My T630 is whisper quiet with it's 6 fans running at a low speed.
Thank you for the kind words! Funny you mentioned, IPMItool, I actually made a tutorial video explaining how to install and use it as well as a list of various commands. On an R720 I was able to squeeze out a bit more 'quiet' from it by dialing down the non-CPU (1, 3, 4 & 6) fans a fre more percentage than #2 & #5 which helped the sound even more. The only issue was the RAID daughter card running a bit hotter than I liked, so I added a small Noctua 12v fan to the RAID card heatsink and fed power to it from one of The PCIe power connectors. ruclips.net/video/KamY5zMpXKI/видео.htmlsi=7v6Hoj4Vv0eXzY7L
Thank you for the kind words! The system has been way below quiet as well as can handle 24/7 stress testing with zero need to ramp up the fans at all, with CPU temps below 80C!
I always use a thermal paste spreader tool and evenly spread the thermal paste over the entire CPU's heat shield from edge-to-edge before I install the heat sink.
I used to do that until I observed small pockets of air that would stay trapped underneath. After running stress tests I found the center method produces the best results. I think it may be due to the paste being able to spread its self as it's compressed, working the air out as it spreads.
One of these would make a pretty neat high core count work station on the cheap. Something line blender or DaVinci Resolve would run pretty fast on one of these, Especially with an nvida 12 gig A2000
Killer. I have a Dell r330 and like the content. It has 64gb Ram; I’d love more info about upgrading these types of systems. (You’d prolly love my current project; a Dolch PAC 60 luggable 486!)
Hey there. This is flipping awesome! Good job. I just got a t430 and I am wondering how compatible these parts would be if I wanted to upgrade? Where would one check?
Thank you for the kind words! Unfortunately I don't think any of them are except the rear case fan accepting a Noctua 120mm 3K RPM industrial fan. Noctua does have a variety of coolers that do/can fit the LGA 2011-3 socket in the T430, but with a range of different requirements... ncc.noctua.at/cpus/model/Xeon-E5-2630L-v3-cpu-636 In the end the question with coolers comes down to height and clearance (interference) under the factory Dell ducting/shroud. I would highly recommend keeping the shroud due to the airflow assist it provides around the drives connected to the front backplane as well as assisting with channeling CPU discharge heat to the exhaust fan. Having the individual Noctua fans for each CPU cooler allow you to turn the exhaust fan speed down greatly and still have excellent cooling ability. That coupled with the Nocua CPU coolers (which are overkill for the Xeons) allow you to turn the exhaust fan speed way down whiel also having the CPUs stressed 100% and never come remotely close to throttling... all while silent.
@Warning56kb haha! I get it! My comment was just to be funny! Nice video overall. I dont have any of the T series Dell servers, but I have a couple r610's (used to be my proxmox cluster), an r510 (previously my main trunas server but will now be a backup trunas server), an r720xd (as my main trunas server now), and an r210ii as my opnsense server. They've all treated me really well!
@@jbonn5365 Nice! I still have a few videos I need to make covering the other servers. Also have a couple of other Poweredges... two R710's and an R630 and R640. The poor R710s have just been sitting to the side unplugged for months now. Once I started running into issues with driver comparability and the lack of certain instruction sets on the CPUs I had to retire them. Moved firewall duty from a Lenovo M720q to an HPE Dl20 Gen9 as well. I can't leave things alone lol.
I'm not certain about any clearance issues around the air ducting shroud, but Noctua at least used to make a mounting adapter kit (NM-I2011) to allow installation of any of their coolers made since 2005 on the LGA2011-3 socket, so if you can find the adapter kit, they'll definitely fit the socket. The NH-D14 SE2011 is compatible out of the box, but by the images clearance would most likely be an issue because of the width, but they might simply hand out a bit on the ends if the air duct shroud has open ends on the T430 and T630.
@@Warning56kb Thank you so much for your reply. I thought that maybe Dell is using a modified socket, so you can't use a different CPU cooler. I should have that kit, I used a few E5 v3 in the last 5-6 years with Noctua. Now I'm waiting for you to make the tutorial about lowering the fans speed via IPMI tool - console. There's a rumour that you'll do it in the next 2 days 😎
I actually have the Dell adapter for the lower fan pinout, but when I tapped into it the fan speed would continually remain at a very low RPM. It's supposed to be for the external cage fan that clips onto the rear, but I figured it would at least attempt to generate the same flow as the internal fan. That's also assuming it's it's the same spec fan, which I can't think of any reason why they'd use one with different specs. Changes in iDRAC wouldn't cause a change in its speed, so I just ditched it and used the splitters.
Hey, great build and love the video! Just got my hands on a T430 with the 2.5 SAS backplane, but coming from a SM CSE-826 which I was running 8x 3.5 SAS 4TB Drives and I want to get the 8x 3.5 Backplane/cage. Can you confirm if a donor T320 etc with that backplane will fit a T430? Thanks
@@Warning56kb I just got a Dell t630 I'm wanting to upgrade to a t640! So you're video definitely helps. My steps will be different but I'm going to do a RUclips video like you did to share my results I have to get some noctua fans!
It might be. I was previously running ESXi 7.0u3, but never attempted v8. It worked awesome as a hypervisor, right now it's my main daily-driver rig booting Windows 11 and running VMware Workstation Pro managing eight VMs. No typical Windows issues such as having to reboot often. No issues at all really with the exception of at reboot it will occasionally force run a mem check because of Win11. I was able to get ESXI v8 running on my R720, but had to first install v7.0u3 and then upgrade to v8. As soon as I get another daily driver rig going i'll return the T420 to hypervisor status and try to push v8 to it. I know the processors will halt the install, but not sure if it'll be bypassable. At that point i'll be having the T420 and R720 mirroring each other for failover.
They did, perfectly! One of the primary goals of the upgrade was to retain the air duct due to the added cooling ability of all the fans being able to create a flow channel with a high flow rate in and out of the system, but with near zero noise.
Theres a slim chance that it might, but I doubt it. I haven't had a 13th gen on hand to inspect. I know for certain the power supply setup is different as the PSUs are not interchangable. The 13th gen servers have come down in price quite a bit over just the past six months, so it may be a better idea to simply upgrade to a 13th gen system all together. You can get T530's around the $500 range, sometimes a little less.
@@Warning56kb How much did this upgrade cost you? What all would I have to buy to do it? Do I have to do all that you did or just MB, heatsinks and new cpus
Everything cost around.... $350-ish? That was for the power supplies, motherboard, processors and RAM. There's kits for the power supply available that include the daughter board parts for the PSUs along with the PSUs. Bare minimum all you need is the MB and PSUs because of the power required. I could never find a solo PSU that had enough power for the dual Xeons. You honestly don't even need the heatsinks. I just put them on so I could lower the rear fan speed way down while actually having an improvement in cooling.
Right. They just run at their rated speeds from the SATA power adapter. The loudest fans are the PSU fans, but once it settles down after boot they're quiet.
@@Warning56kb I'm trying to cool my PCIe cards, since they get so hot you can't touch them, but without manual fan speed control, I could not find a way beside putting them at max speed as you did...
@@Vali615 Gotcha. In the video I added a Noctua NF-P12 as an intake fan that blows onto the PCIe cards. That one alone helped tremendously. With a CD drive in the top bay it fits very snugly underneath it. Pretty much eliminates that hot upper PCIe area.
Do you have a recommended guide on getting the T320/T420 hardware to run on windows 10 (specifically the PERC)? I am new to the server world and would benefit greatly from an idiot proof process to adhere to.
I do not, but that wouldn't be too bad of a video to make. It's pretty straighforward. Windows 10 has compatible drivers for the PERC as well as all of the other components if I remember correctly from the last install. Even Windows 11 is very straightforward if you have the bypass for the TPM and Secure Boot through such as with Rufus.
You probably won’t see this but I was inspired by your guide to take a chance. Went through the process of cross flashing my Perc h710 using fohdeeshas guide and now have my t320 running truenas core within proxmox. I’ve got a ways to go in my self hosting journey but this video was a big inspiration! Great work!
You might be able to! Might be able to! Start checking out the manuals for the next size up board and look at pics of the connectors. Not sure about the PSU connectors on the 10th gen T's
They're not. The two that are available (Primary and secondary) more closely resemble an old CD-ROM drive audio connector. I made an adapter for the secondary fan header, but the fan would never spin. Never checked power to the pin, though. Just tossed it to the side and never used it. If memory serves me correctly the secondary fan header is supposed to be for the addition of a second external exhaust fan. I thought it would at least spin at a given RPM, but nothing,.
I also have a dell t320 and I have some questions, hope you can answer: -its raid card is dell h310, as far as i know it is only 6 Gbps. i want to setup nas 10gbps can i replace this raid card to get the right speed ? -Can you make a video booting win ssd m2 nvme from the transfer card? is it stable? does it get enough speed? is there any other way? Tks you !
Nice video very informative. I have a T320 with single 10 core processor and non redundant power supply. 96 mb ram. This also uses standard HDD's. Do you think the hot swappable power supply can be done to this system? I have read its only for hot swappable drive models only.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm fairly certain the hot swapable PSU can be used with the single CPU motherboards granted you get all of the hot swap PSU components. The motherboards have the same connections as well as the iDRAC versions being the same, so i'd very suprised if they didn't work for some reason. I'm willing to bet that the 'for hot swappable drive models only' is meant as a general disclaimer to people who may attempt to purchase redundant PSUs in hopes that they'll directly fit the original single PSU slot without modification.
Thank you, and agreed! I had narration to it, but the audio came out funky and just used music instead. I'm tempted to maybe reuse the video and add some narration to. Thank you for reminding me of this!
@@Yofud 🤣 Shouldn't hear any heavy breathing. The audio was completely stripped by google because the original music had a copyright claim (despite being copyright free 🙄), so I laid down narration that didn't work out and ended up with the classical track instead of having dead silence. Maybe you still have your "other browser window" minimized 🤣
Thank you for the kind words! I'm not 100% certain, but I highly doubt it would fit. My T320/T420s layout is massively different from my R720 in numerous ways. It would take a lot of work if even possible. Prices on the R720s have come down greatly over the past couple of years and you can get them for just $180 to $300 and have the potential to be upgraded to a couple of Sandy Xeons out the gate.
Depends on if you have a dual or single socket as well as amount of ram and accessories dual or single psu's, ect. You can potentially get it down below 50W, but i'd say a decent average is around 80-90W with an average number of accessories. This one runs at 120w idle loaded out. There's also power consumption settings you can set that commands full power, partial or power savings, which can have a drastic impact.
I've been reviewing the Dell T420 manual EBay and searching via Google - where do you get the Internal USB for the T420 motherboard? Can not find any in the marketplace - nor any mention in the documentation. What am I missing?
It's just any general USB dongle. The more proven to be reliable the better. Really fast speeds isnt paramount because it'll be limited to USB 2.0 speed, but thats plenty fast enough just to load Clover, which is very lightweight. In general shoot for a short height dongle one if possible for clearance since it's tucked under some cabling.
Not sure off hand, but it was a Mellanox ConnectX-2. I would highly recommend looking for a ConnectX-4 if you plan of using it directly with Windows 11.
Uh oh. As far as i'm aware flashing from 6 to 7 is impossible on a gen 11 due to hardware differences. I'm willing to bet the unit is kaput. Most likely have to buy another v6 module.
@@Warning56kb Ok, thank you. I have a T420 with no CD-ROM drive installed. I do have two of them. Maybe it's time to install it! I really liked this video.
Unfortunately the R730 has too low of a profile to fit one. If you're reaaaaally wanting to improve the temps without increasing the fan speed you could lap the CPU(s) and heatsink base. I had good results doing that to this T320 before doing the T420 upgrade. It netted approximately a 3-5C reduction in idle and max temp with no change in fan speed. Not exactly a world-changing difference, but.... yeah.
Hi there, I have this exact same Dell T420 tower and after upgrading to two Xeons E5-2450 V2 with 192Gb DDR3L 1.35V plus two redundant Delta 1600W PSU and a RTX3060 12Gb, the single 120mm fan at the back plus the two PSU tiny fans are running 99% quiet and silently, only at the very beginning start for about 12 or 20 seconds are noisy running at full speed therefore this is the reason was not really necessary for me to tweak as you did the % of fans curve speed and to change the coolers and change the 120mm fan, anyway thang you for this video
Good to hear and you're very welcome! In this case the need for the CPU coolers and fan modifications was due to running the more power hungry CPUs than you have coupled with the CPU loads often approaching 90%, causing the fan speed to ramp up tremendously. These modifications allowed the CPUs to undergo 100% stress testing for 8 hours with no change in chassis fan speed and CPU temps maxing at 65C. Happy modding and good luck with your system! 🙂
Someone is selling a t320 for $80 near me. But I wa t to take the byte and just buy a r730xd with 128gb of ram ! $400 dollars, though. Its so expensive !
That's actually not too bad for an R730XD! I would definitely opt for that over the T320. Little bit better hardware a step up in CPUs (and RAM capacity). But, that then puts you in the position of having a large (deep) 2U server on your hands.
@@Warning56kb I ended up making my own server. It has a ryzen 9 3900x, RX 6700xt, asrock rack x470d4u, 128gb ECC ram, x2 2TB enterprise SSDs for VMs, x1 1TB NVME for Proxmox.
why even upgrade the power supplies that much if you are going to throw that T600 in there, at the very least if you are going to go low wattage get one of those Tesla P4s
For future GPUs. That and the single original PSU was under spec for upgrading to dual Xeons, expecially the more power hungry ones. Decided to prep it for larger video cards rather than having to buy another set of PSU again later on.
Oh no doubt. The other troublesome part is if booting Windows 11 (or 10) instead of being used solely as a hypervisor, Windows occasionally trips the memory check at POST despite being diabled... adding even more time to an already lengthy boot time.
How can you even hear it? Lol. I added it just havr something in the background. Turned it waaaay down low to the point it was just slight white noise. Is it loud for you?
Yeah, some of the most celebrated music for over 200 years is trash... You guys crack me up suggesting everyone should make their videos to fit your "taste".
Great build!
I also got my hands on a T420 and now I have some ideas my bank account doesn't like at all :D
Nice! Definitely stick a fan above the SAS drives and below the CD drive. The area at the top of the PCIe cards likes to hold air without much flow. The extra fan blows right at that area.
GREAT video man!! On a side note, you can control the fans through the idrac using IPMI. I have a T330, T630, and T430 that all have controllable fans programmatically. It cuts down on the noise when you set the fans to 10% of power but you have to monitor the heat to make sure nothing overheats.
My T630 is whisper quiet with it's 6 fans running at a low speed.
Thank you for the kind words! Funny you mentioned, IPMItool, I actually made a tutorial video explaining how to install and use it as well as a list of various commands.
On an R720 I was able to squeeze out a bit more 'quiet' from it by dialing down the non-CPU (1, 3, 4 & 6) fans a fre more percentage than #2 & #5 which helped the sound even more. The only issue was the RAID daughter card running a bit hotter than I liked, so I added a small Noctua 12v fan to the RAID card heatsink and fed power to it from one of The PCIe power connectors.
ruclips.net/video/KamY5zMpXKI/видео.htmlsi=7v6Hoj4Vv0eXzY7L
I’m trying to think about upgrading to T430 from T320, your video is very helpful.
Thank you for the kind words! If you have any questions, please feel free to ask away!
Love it! I just upgraded mine to 2tb of ssd and 96GB of memory, mine is only the single cpu model.
Nice job on the upgrades! Very clean install and I like the Noctua fans! I use them in my switches....grin
Thank you for the kind words! The system has been way below quiet as well as can handle 24/7 stress testing with zero need to ramp up the fans at all, with CPU temps below 80C!
I always use a thermal paste spreader tool and evenly spread the thermal paste over the entire CPU's heat shield from edge-to-edge before I install the heat sink.
I used to do that until I observed small pockets of air that would stay trapped underneath. After running stress tests I found the center method produces the best results. I think it may be due to the paste being able to spread its self as it's compressed, working the air out as it spreads.
One of these would make a pretty neat high core count work station on the cheap. Something line blender or DaVinci Resolve would run pretty fast on one of these, Especially with an nvida 12 gig A2000
Killer. I have a Dell r330 and like the content. It has 64gb Ram; I’d love more info about upgrading these types of systems. (You’d prolly love my current project; a Dolch PAC 60 luggable 486!)
Hey there. This is flipping awesome! Good job. I just got a t430 and I am wondering how compatible these parts would be if I wanted to upgrade? Where would one check?
Thank you for the kind words! Unfortunately I don't think any of them are except the rear case fan accepting a Noctua 120mm 3K RPM industrial fan. Noctua does have a variety of coolers that do/can fit the LGA 2011-3 socket in the T430, but with a range of different requirements...
ncc.noctua.at/cpus/model/Xeon-E5-2630L-v3-cpu-636
In the end the question with coolers comes down to height and clearance (interference) under the factory Dell ducting/shroud. I would highly recommend keeping the shroud due to the airflow assist it provides around the drives connected to the front backplane as well as assisting with channeling CPU discharge heat to the exhaust fan. Having the individual Noctua fans for each CPU cooler allow you to turn the exhaust fan speed down greatly and still have excellent cooling ability. That coupled with the Nocua CPU coolers (which are overkill for the Xeons) allow you to turn the exhaust fan speed way down whiel also having the CPUs stressed 100% and never come remotely close to throttling... all while silent.
@@Warning56kb I appreciate the link! And thank you for that information.
@@Yofud You're very welcome!
Nice video. The only thing missing was a real screwdriver. haha!
@@jbonn5365 lol oh i've lost so many screwdrivers over the years. All I use now is just cheap ones from my automotive toolboxes.
@Warning56kb haha! I get it! My comment was just to be funny! Nice video overall. I dont have any of the T series Dell servers, but I have a couple r610's (used to be my proxmox cluster), an r510 (previously my main trunas server but will now be a backup trunas server), an r720xd (as my main trunas server now), and an r210ii as my opnsense server. They've all treated me really well!
@@jbonn5365 Nice! I still have a few videos I need to make covering the other servers. Also have a couple of other Poweredges... two R710's and an R630 and R640. The poor R710s have just been sitting to the side unplugged for months now. Once I started running into issues with driver comparability and the lack of certain instruction sets on the CPUs I had to retire them. Moved firewall duty from a Lenovo M720q to an HPE Dl20 Gen9 as well. I can't leave things alone lol.
love this, definitely earned a sub
That was great. I'm a Noctua fans fan. Can you tell me please, the CPU cooling system will work with a T430-T630? Thank you.
I'm not certain about any clearance issues around the air ducting shroud, but Noctua at least used to make a mounting adapter kit (NM-I2011) to allow installation of any of their coolers made since 2005 on the LGA2011-3 socket, so if you can find the adapter kit, they'll definitely fit the socket. The NH-D14 SE2011 is compatible out of the box, but by the images clearance would most likely be an issue because of the width, but they might simply hand out a bit on the ends if the air duct shroud has open ends on the T430 and T630.
@@Warning56kb Thank you so much for your reply. I thought that maybe Dell is using a modified socket, so you can't use a different CPU cooler. I should have that kit, I used a few E5 v3 in the last 5-6 years with Noctua. Now I'm waiting for you to make the tutorial about lowering the fans speed via IPMI tool - console. There's a rumour that you'll do it in the next 2 days 😎
Killer: There's a 4 pin fan and a 5 pin PWN on the motherboard. Did you consider using either for the new CPU fans?
I actually have the Dell adapter for the lower fan pinout, but when I tapped into it the fan speed would continually remain at a very low RPM. It's supposed to be for the external cage fan that clips onto the rear, but I figured it would at least attempt to generate the same flow as the internal fan. That's also assuming it's it's the same spec fan, which I can't think of any reason why they'd use one with different specs. Changes in iDRAC wouldn't cause a change in its speed, so I just ditched it and used the splitters.
Can you link the power splitter for the fans?
You find them?
Hey, great build and love the video!
Just got my hands on a T430 with the 2.5 SAS backplane, but coming from a SM CSE-826 which I was running 8x 3.5 SAS 4TB Drives and I want to get the 8x 3.5 Backplane/cage.
Can you confirm if a donor T320 etc with that backplane will fit a T430?
Thanks
Awesome video showing potential upgrades.
Thank you for the kind words!
@@Warning56kb I just got a Dell t630 I'm wanting to upgrade to a t640! So you're video definitely helps. My steps will be different but I'm going to do a RUclips video like you did to share my results
I have to get some noctua fans!
will you be running a hypervisor? i wonder if it's esxi v8 compatible?
It might be. I was previously running ESXi 7.0u3, but never attempted v8. It worked awesome as a hypervisor, right now it's my main daily-driver rig booting Windows 11 and running VMware Workstation Pro managing eight VMs. No typical Windows issues such as having to reboot often. No issues at all really with the exception of at reboot it will occasionally force run a mem check because of Win11. I was able to get ESXI v8 running on my R720, but had to first install v7.0u3 and then upgrade to v8. As soon as I get another daily driver rig going i'll return the T420 to hypervisor status and try to push v8 to it. I know the processors will halt the install, but not sure if it'll be bypassable. At that point i'll be having the T420 and R720 mirroring each other for failover.
Proxmox is fantastic on a T420
@@nigeltrigger4499 it is! I would use Proxmox more if it was more prevalent in the enterprise world.
So when you finished did the fan shroud fit over the new cpu coolers?
They did, perfectly! One of the primary goals of the upgrade was to retain the air duct due to the added cooling ability of all the fans being able to create a flow channel with a high flow rate in and out of the system, but with near zero noise.
@@Warning56kb thank you, by the way I enjoyed the background music!
I will give it to Dell they do at least offer a lot of nooks and crannies to shove cables in to make cable management more efficient.
I have T320 and I am thinking the same thing, but at the same time couldnt I go for like a T530 or will it not fit?
Theres a slim chance that it might, but I doubt it. I haven't had a 13th gen on hand to inspect. I know for certain the power supply setup is different as the PSUs are not interchangable. The 13th gen servers have come down in price quite a bit over just the past six months, so it may be a better idea to simply upgrade to a 13th gen system all together. You can get T530's around the $500 range, sometimes a little less.
@@Warning56kb How much did this upgrade cost you? What all would I have to buy to do it? Do I have to do all that you did or just MB, heatsinks and new cpus
Everything cost around.... $350-ish? That was for the power supplies, motherboard, processors and RAM. There's kits for the power supply available that include the daughter board parts for the PSUs along with the PSUs. Bare minimum all you need is the MB and PSUs because of the power required. I could never find a solo PSU that had enough power for the dual Xeons. You honestly don't even need the heatsinks. I just put them on so I could lower the rear fan speed way down while actually having an improvement in cooling.
How do you control the fan speed of those extra fans? Or are they on max speed all the time?
Right. They just run at their rated speeds from the SATA power adapter. The loudest fans are the PSU fans, but once it settles down after boot they're quiet.
@@Warning56kb I'm trying to cool my PCIe cards, since they get so hot you can't touch them, but without manual fan speed control, I could not find a way beside putting them at max speed as you did...
@@Vali615 Gotcha. In the video I added a Noctua NF-P12 as an intake fan that blows onto the PCIe cards. That one alone helped tremendously. With a CD drive in the top bay it fits very snugly underneath it. Pretty much eliminates that hot upper PCIe area.
Do you have a recommended guide on getting the T320/T420 hardware to run on windows 10 (specifically the PERC)? I am new to the server world and would benefit greatly from an idiot proof process to adhere to.
I do not, but that wouldn't be too bad of a video to make. It's pretty straighforward. Windows 10 has compatible drivers for the PERC as well as all of the other components if I remember correctly from the last install. Even Windows 11 is very straightforward if you have the bypass for the TPM and Secure Boot through such as with Rufus.
You probably won’t see this but I was inspired by your guide to take a chance. Went through the process of cross flashing my Perc h710 using fohdeeshas guide and now have my t320 running truenas core within proxmox. I’ve got a ways to go in my self hosting journey but this video was a big inspiration! Great work!
hmm, I have 3 Dell T310's that I don't use very much at the moment - now I wonder if I could upgrade them similarly...............
You might be able to! Might be able to! Start checking out the manuals for the next size up board and look at pics of the connectors. Not sure about the PSU connectors on the 10th gen T's
Are the fan headers standard? i looked at some of my fans going to add them in and did not look like the 4pin fans I have are the same connector.
They're not. The two that are available (Primary and secondary) more closely resemble an old CD-ROM drive audio connector. I made an adapter for the secondary fan header, but the fan would never spin. Never checked power to the pin, though. Just tossed it to the side and never used it. If memory serves me correctly the secondary fan header is supposed to be for the addition of a second external exhaust fan. I thought it would at least spin at a given RPM, but nothing,.
I also have a dell t320 and I have some questions, hope you can answer:
-its raid card is dell h310, as far as i know it is only 6 Gbps. i want to setup nas 10gbps can i replace this raid card to get the right speed ?
-Can you make a video booting win ssd m2 nvme from the transfer card? is it stable? does it get enough speed? is there any other way?
Tks you !
Nice video very informative. I have a T320 with single 10 core processor and non redundant power supply. 96 mb ram. This also uses standard HDD's. Do you think the hot swappable power supply can be done to this system? I have read its only for hot swappable drive models only.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm fairly certain the hot swapable PSU can be used with the single CPU motherboards granted you get all of the hot swap PSU components. The motherboards have the same connections as well as the iDRAC versions being the same, so i'd very suprised if they didn't work for some reason.
I'm willing to bet that the 'for hot swappable drive models only' is meant as a general disclaimer to people who may attempt to purchase redundant PSUs in hopes that they'll directly fit the original single PSU slot without modification.
@@Warning56kb Thanks for your quick answer I kinda thought it could be done just wanted to get the opinion of someone more knowledgeable
While the music is nice, I would have enjoyed it more with narration....grin. Nice video showing the upgrades.
Thank you, and agreed! I had narration to it, but the audio came out funky and just used music instead. I'm tempted to maybe reuse the video and add some narration to. Thank you for reminding me of this!
I liked the music a bunch, but yeah, I can hear some heavy breathing too? 😂 kinda weird
@@Yofud 🤣 Shouldn't hear any heavy breathing. The audio was completely stripped by google because the original music had a copyright claim (despite being copyright free 🙄), so I laid down narration that didn't work out and ended up with the classical track instead of having dead silence.
Maybe you still have your "other browser window" minimized 🤣
Great video! I have an r320 1U and wonder if I can upgrade to a t420 mobo for a 2nd cpu too.
Thank you for the kind words! I'm not 100% certain, but I highly doubt it would fit. My T320/T420s layout is massively different from my R720 in numerous ways. It would take a lot of work if even possible. Prices on the R720s have come down greatly over the past couple of years and you can get them for just $180 to $300 and have the potential to be upgraded to a couple of Sandy Xeons out the gate.
I modded mine to fit standard PSUs and put a supermicro X9DRH-7F in it.
You mean ATX PSU?
yes
Nice!
Any pics or vids of this? Would like to put an epulyc or threadripper in my chasis
I cut a bigger hole with an angle grinder and welding in a PSU bracket I cut out of another case. There's plenty of room, do it.
What’s the ideal power consumption?
Depends on if you have a dual or single socket as well as amount of ram and accessories dual or single psu's, ect. You can potentially get it down below 50W, but i'd say a decent average is around 80-90W with an average number of accessories. This one runs at 120w idle loaded out. There's also power consumption settings you can set that commands full power, partial or power savings, which can have a drastic impact.
I've been reviewing the Dell T420 manual EBay and searching via Google - where do you get the Internal USB for the T420 motherboard? Can not find any in the marketplace - nor any mention in the documentation. What am I missing?
It's just any general USB dongle. The more proven to be reliable the better. Really fast speeds isnt paramount because it'll be limited to USB 2.0 speed, but thats plenty fast enough just to load Clover, which is very lightweight. In general shoot for a short height dongle one if possible for clearance since it's tucked under some cabling.
Do you still have that old T320 board and parts ?
I have a T310
I do, but I don't think the motherboard and power connectors are the same from the 11th to 12th gens.
How did you get windows 11 on it VM?
It's booting Clover from the internal USB that then points to a 1TB WB Blue NMVe in a PCIe slot that has Win11 on it to continue the boot process.
T420 you build ,can run windows server 2022 ?
It can! It can also even run normal Windows 11.
So if no tpm 2.0 on board is no problem ?@@Warning56kb
@@GintarasSimonelis if you use Rufus to install it bypasses TPM and Secure Boot
Can you make video how to install server 2022 on dell poweredge t420 server ?@@Warning56kb
What is the model number on the 10GB card, im trying to pick one up to add to mine
Not sure off hand, but it was a Mellanox ConnectX-2. I would highly recommend looking for a ConnectX-4 if you plan of using it directly with Windows 11.
What do I do if my iDRAC and Lifecycle Controller doesn't work, there are no videos or info on it!?
Can you not access iDRAC options from the BIOS?
Nopp
@fob79 is correct, you cannot. You can access some settings for iDRAC, but not iDRAC its self.
Have you dealt with a dead iDRAC? Mine died in a iDRAC upgrade. Going from 6 to 7.
Uh oh. As far as i'm aware flashing from 6 to 7 is impossible on a gen 11 due to hardware differences. I'm willing to bet the unit is kaput. Most likely have to buy another v6 module.
@@Warning56kb I saw a couple of videos about desoldering the emmc chip. and replacing it. I was wondering if you have any opinions on doing this?
How are securing the front fan?
@@kellyslow5506 It fits snugly under the CD-ROM drive. The server gets moved ocassionally and the fan has never budged.
@@Warning56kb Ok, thank you. I have a T420 with no CD-ROM drive installed. I do have two of them. Maybe it's time to install it! I really liked this video.
@@kellyslow5506 Thank you for the kind words!
no gpu?
It''s using an Nvidia RTX T600. Shows it at the 2:12 and 27:57 marks.
Any idea if I can do the noctua CPU cooler on a R730?
Unfortunately the R730 has too low of a profile to fit one. If you're reaaaaally wanting to improve the temps without increasing the fan speed you could lap the CPU(s) and heatsink base. I had good results doing that to this T320 before doing the T420 upgrade. It netted approximately a 3-5C reduction in idle and max temp with no change in fan speed. Not exactly a world-changing difference, but.... yeah.
@@Warning56kb ah bugger! Thanks for the reply
Hi there, I have this exact same Dell T420 tower and after upgrading to two Xeons E5-2450 V2 with 192Gb DDR3L 1.35V plus two redundant Delta 1600W PSU and a RTX3060 12Gb, the single 120mm fan at the back plus the two PSU tiny fans are running 99% quiet and silently, only at the very beginning start for about 12 or 20 seconds are noisy running at full speed therefore this is the reason was not really necessary for me to tweak as you did the % of fans curve speed and to change the coolers and change the 120mm fan, anyway thang you for this video
Good to hear and you're very welcome! In this case the need for the CPU coolers and fan modifications was due to running the more power hungry CPUs than you have coupled with the CPU loads often approaching 90%, causing the fan speed to ramp up tremendously. These modifications allowed the CPUs to undergo 100% stress testing for 8 hours with no change in chassis fan speed and CPU temps maxing at 65C.
Happy modding and good luck with your system! 🙂
Can you link the splitters?
Someone is selling a t320 for $80 near me. But I wa t to take the byte and just buy a r730xd with 128gb of ram ! $400 dollars, though. Its so expensive !
That's actually not too bad for an R730XD! I would definitely opt for that over the T320. Little bit better hardware a step up in CPUs (and RAM capacity). But, that then puts you in the position of having a large (deep) 2U server on your hands.
@@Warning56kb I ended up making my own server. It has a ryzen 9 3900x, RX 6700xt, asrock rack x470d4u, 128gb ECC ram, x2 2TB enterprise SSDs for VMs, x1 1TB NVME for Proxmox.
why even upgrade the power supplies that much if you are going to throw that T600 in there, at the very least if you are going to go low wattage get one of those Tesla P4s
For future GPUs. That and the single original PSU was under spec for upgrading to dual Xeons, expecially the more power hungry ones. Decided to prep it for larger video cards rather than having to buy another set of PSU again later on.
too bad though there is nothing we can do to speed up booting, booting on the t320 is a nightmare as a desktop
Oh no doubt. The other troublesome part is if booting Windows 11 (or 10) instead of being used solely as a hypervisor, Windows occasionally trips the memory check at POST despite being diabled... adding even more time to an already lengthy boot time.
T400 series AND Mozart...? Insta-subscribe!
Bro the music is trash otherwise good vid
How can you even hear it? Lol. I added it just havr something in the background. Turned it waaaay down low to the point it was just slight white noise. Is it loud for you?
@@Warning56kb The sound or type of music just annoyed me in that moment if I could suggest something more chill or no music at all.
@@dandraeg3679 Understood. Thank you for the feedback!
Yeah, some of the most celebrated music for over 200 years is trash... You guys crack me up suggesting everyone should make their videos to fit your "taste".