3d-printable Mellanox NIC cooler

Shameless self promotion, but I think this might actually interest some here.

Card temp without: 70+++°C
Card temp with: 56°C @ 30% fan.

Only adds 2-3mm to the width of the card, final width is still well within 1 slot.

Printed in 2 pieces, no supports, PETG works. Should fit most (all?) 100GbE CX4 and CX6 cards.

Yes, it’s soviet-ugly but I’m not Johnny Ive. It does work well though. BOM & models here:

https://www.printables.com/model/997890-mellanox-connectx-cx-4-cx-6-active-cooler

Step file included: it should be straightforward to adapt it to whatever enterprise card you got off ebay, be that a NIC or a HBA or whatever. :slight_smile:

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Looks great!

Pfff, you haven’t seen my Nocuta 40mm fan that is attached to a Chelsio 520 by pressing these rubber things trough the cooling fins


Works pretty well :grin:

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