EPYC Server Noctua Fan Conversion 

Ah yes, the number one favorite method of PC cooling, using a jet engine 😆Welcome to Delta airlines ✈

Pretty sure I have given Noctua enough money for a mortgage payment over the years. Love the video!

Nice hat Marty!

Hot swap bays are the bane of airflow. I had to switch back from a bay design case to modifying its predecessor to include custom disk mounts and fans. Works beautifully now, mind.

I gave my fileserver the Noctua treatment as well lol.

Impressive results! Even though you had to use way more fans and a lot of engineering, the performance you got was surprising considering the Noctua fans push so much less air. I really liked how you stacked the fans inside the CPU shroud. The green fan shrouds look dope too.

AMD has been at its time for making EPYC Processors designed for Enterprise Servers.

Ah, knock-tua or Notch-tua. The porsch or porsch-ah of the computer world haha

Now my one HUGE question was: Were any Noctua employees happening to watch the Twitch sessions involved in their investment in you? >;D

What an EPYC Conversion! Very COOL!

Honestly that's pretty impressive I love it

I don't subscribe to the idea of brand loyalty in most cases however noctua is an exception. I'm a fan of their fans.

Haha noctuas go brrrr

i love when ideas just kinda cascade into more ideas improving more things while also tackling the original problems like this.

I made a PSU blow short by doing this. Which, to be fair, those 40mm redundant brick PSUs are the *worse* possible candidate for this kind of swap, but i did it anyway and it cooked. It happened to be the one attached to the UPS, so the UPS ate the short, and thus *both* the alarm on the chassis and the UPS were screaming at me.

I'm surprised noctua didn't make you make the covers brown or beige.

Nice brackets! Word of caution from someone who's done this sort of thing before and learned some lessons the hard way. RAID controllers can get pretty hot, and don't handle it as gracefully as a CPU. They generally have a tiny heatsink too, so airflow is all the more important. This will probably be even more important on a RAID controller that can handle a bunch of U.2 drives compared to SATA/SAS. I suggest making sure you monitor the temperature on everything available. For RAID controllers you often have to install some hard-to-find package from the vendor to get the temperature readings, but it's worth the effort. The PSUs also suck air from the case. You might want to consider pulling one of the two, if you can sustain a few minutes downtime in the event a PSU fails. That cuts the PSU noise by half. You can also check the manufacturer for compatible parts. There is often a more efficient version of the PSU that requires less cooling and thus ends up being much quieter. Good luck!

You definitely got a better result from a rackmount server than I did - I ended up buying a ROMED8-2T ATX Board instead and building an EPYC server in a Define 7 XL case. (All Noctua as well, including the NH-U14S TR4-SP3 for the CPU, a 120W EPYC 7282)

Nothing that fancy but I really need to build a RAID machine for archive backup of my data/software for myretro machines

UV LED light strips exist! (spends an hour browsing through them - surely someone makes addressable ones with different wavelengths - do want)

Don't need noctua fans to do that job. Overpriced fans.

Noctua is the best. I've replaced so many noisy PSY, CPU and case fans on vintage computers to make them almost silent.

Hi! Nice hat from back to the future ;)

What a cool project Shelby, pun intended :D

Always nice to see some fan-sponsored content!

I alway like a Noctua Fan. Someday!

This was a good video! thanks for sharing!

I love this

"Noc Tua!, spin on that thang"

What a cool Video 😊

16th man. 16th !,,

Very cool

I wish RU-vid gave us a 720P/30 option on 60FPS uploads (1080P Premium re-encode would be perfect since I pay). I watch YT on low end devices in the summer because of heat output and my internet isn't always the best. Having a 720P/30 would be so much better vs the default 480P.

How many dollars is that in fans? seems a sponsored video checkmark is missing.

Uhm ... only work without any other hardware like Tesla GPUs installed ... why not ... it works 👍

Hmm reaching 90 degrees and stating it did not throttle.... only performance numbers before and after can prove that itdid not actually throttle.

My entire pc is already Noc Tuah Fans.