Improve my noisy Dell workstation

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Күн бұрын

The Dell T5820s are designed to be workstations or servers, so the performance is prioritized over the noise. When the summer comes, the stock fans produce huge amount of noise at high speed to keep it cool. It would be stressful when sitting next to it. In this video, I'd like to share what I did, which might be helpful if someone also want to suspress the noise, while still be able to maintain good CPU temperature on these machines.
0:00 Summer and fans noise
3:34 New CPU cooler selection
6:16 Fan connectors
10:29 3rd-party fans compatibility
13:16 Setup patterns and tests
18:11 Tests summary
19:05 New cooler clearance
19:57 Intrusion detection bypass
LGA2011/LGA2066 ILM (Independent Loading Mechanism)
noctua.at/en/products/cpu-coo...

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@danieljosiah Жыл бұрын

Fantastic video, I enjoyed getting to see the entire process of setting up the third-party fans and seeing the results of the tests you ran. You did such a great job!

@thinhdora Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I’m glad you enjoyed!

@stevens1041 25 күн бұрын

I really appreciate this video. Baffling that this is the stock design on a high-end work station.

@Spaghettii_B 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for doing all this research! I got my own Precision 5820 to run a homelab and I was able to fully replicate the upgrades you made! One thing I had to do differently was reverse the orientation of the Noctua Cooler. I'm using the two PCIE ports for the NVMe flex bays and the cable interferes with putting a second fan (I was using the NF-A9 which is the same that came with my NH-D9DX i4 3U), and the rear screw posts using the Narrow ILM brackets lift a rear mounted fan up. I had to rotate my cooler 180 degrees to do the same fan orientation with flipped fan directions. Overall the noise levels dropped significantly, and you hear the silence of the 20 Db drop from the stock fans.

@thinhdora 2 ай бұрын

I’m glad that it helps!

@bhabanisanakrdas007 3 ай бұрын

Explained every detail..thanks for your wonderful experiment....👌👌👌

@AB-rz5iw Жыл бұрын

Interesting video with lot of bits of information. Thanks for sharing!

@thinhdora 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for commenting. I'm glad it helped.

@andre-le-bone-aparte 6 ай бұрын

Just found your channel - Excellent Content - Another sub for you!

@johnboycousins 4 күн бұрын

Useful video, however it would be much more helpful if you canned the background music when demonstrating the volume of the fans!

@mcipovic 7 ай бұрын

What's your usual power consumption? When the PC is idling and doing nothing is it noisy?

@thinhdora 7 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I haven't measured the power consumption, but the temp at idle is good (~45*C at 26*C ambient) so I guess the power consumption at idle might not be high. Also at idle, the CPU fan has grinding noise, that's one of reason I replaced it.

@w06 11 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

@karl02756 2 ай бұрын

The saviour, it seems my front fan also has some awful rattling/bearing issues, have you experimented with this at all?

@thinhdora 2 ай бұрын

Mine has a bit rattling sound too if the big front fan run at high speed. I guess the reason is the unbalance of the fan blades. I can feel the slight vibration. But most of the time that fan run at low rpm so it's not a big issue. If it annoys you, you can replace it with better one like Noctua (of course it needs an adapter to remap the wires as I did).

@karl02756 2 ай бұрын

@@thinhdora I'm struggling to find the size and dimensions of this fan, currently unable to open up my system, do you happen to know if it's just a 120mm in the front?

@karl02756 2 ай бұрын

@@thinhdorado you know if the front fan is 5 pin or Dell 4 pin?

@Karti200 2 ай бұрын

I know I am 9 months late - but the number of issues and DIY requirements on Dell stupid connectors... is why I am always sticking to Lenovo if I have to take OEM PC - no matter if SFF desktop or workstation - because Lenovo left all fan connectors as it should be, with 3-4 pin standard and not some proprietary trash like Dell did...

@thinhdora 2 ай бұрын

You're right. Dell doesn't want people to touch anything under the hood.

@adilqatinefilms 4 ай бұрын

I have same problem in lenovo p920 How to reduce noisy?

@thinhdora 2 ай бұрын

Sorry for late response. You can follow my steps in the video. If your machine uses standard-sized fans, you can replace them with more silent fans like the Noctua. Otherwise, you might need to replace the whole heatsink as I did. Rememer to measure clearance before purchasing new heatsink.

@pulp2560 3 ай бұрын

I upgrade an old HP rp5800. Max cpu i7-2700k. Max ram 32gb (16 in doc...) 256gb sdd + 2x 6 to 3.5 1660 ti with little Undervolt and overclock so max 120w Otiginal 240w psu Windows 11 with atlasos Future? Update gpu with a 4060 itx when price will decrease..

@M3G4UK Жыл бұрын

Great video. Only one thing I would say is if you're trying to demonstrate sound levels I would have removed the music as it gets difficult to hear what you're demonstrating.

@thinhdora Жыл бұрын

Thanks for your comment. I apprecitate it. I should have removed the music at third-party fan testing clips because they're quiet. For a work around, you can listen to the mouse click sound in the clip, regard it as a base sound to compare. I'm sorry for this this inconvenience.

@Ivlodded Ай бұрын

Its so funny they dont even put in exhaust fans.

@kishirisu1268 2 ай бұрын

Just put lower frequency on idle. It is much easier than buy new cooler... But maybe not so interesting for youtbers

@thinhdora 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for your suggestion. The noise level at idle (even at moderate load) is good. The issue I resolved was unbarable noise at high load.

@gpp8681 5 ай бұрын

I would like to point out with your great video while yes noise levels are good and the temperatures are good enough to do with the stock fans are the same fans they use or even just modified versions of Dells poweredge server lineup of fans which are meant for cooling you don't really get the point that these workstations are meant to be in data centers or Enterprise environments reliability and Cooling is sought after more than cooling but still good video though

@thinhdora 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for your comment. You're right, maybe I judged it bad because I used it as an PC. As a server point of view, the two noisy yet powerful system fans will keep the temp good for sure.

@psycl0ptic 9 ай бұрын

add the rear fans kit. reducing airflow won't lower temps. and put the side panel on..don't run with panel off.

@thinhdora 8 ай бұрын

Thanks for your suggestion. I understand the importance of side cover and air pressure. The factory cooling has a shroud for CPU area to ensure high air pressure. So the side cover on or off doesn't matter. The point is not just about the final temperature. It's also about how poor is the factory cooler comparing to the 3rd-party one (although the 3rd-party one doesn't need the shroud). About the rear fan, I also tried attaching double 9.2x25mm rear fans but they doesn't make different and bring up the noise. It could be about not enough air pressure issue. So making the rear fans effectively work is something more complicated than I thought.