The motherboard heatsink does a nice job with cooling. I didn’t expect it to be so close to the chunk of copper Gigabyte heatsink.
Idle temps are lower with the Gigabyte heatsinks, but load temps are lower over time with the mobo heatsink. Seems like it’s either the larger surface area or the mobo is sharing some of the cooling from the chipset fan.
[ Note : I have the Gigabyte drives under the mobo heatsink, and the MP600s in the copper Gigabyte heatsinks. There was some reshuffling when I discovered there wasn’t enough clearance for the DIMM.2 and I had to cut away some of the PCB and remove the Asus heatsink. I was using the MP600 heatsinks in my server rack, so I put on the Gigabyte ones.]
Finally finished moving into this build as my daily driver. I had been using it in tandem with my previous build, but finally shut that one down for good.
One of the major reasons was not wanting to move my 8TBs of local storage into this build. The AMD RAID driver was buggy as hell and generally a bad time to deal with. Got a killer deal on another rackmount QNAP, so I set that up with a bunch of IronWolf Pros and created a snapshot enabled iSCSI (which will later this year be Fibre Channel).
Nice to be on a fresh OS. I’d been putting off doing a clean install on the old system since I knew I was moving soon. Everything feels like it works again lol.
Kiiiiiiiind of. I had to replace the mobo because PCIe devices were just disappearing. In its new form though, it will certainly be a ton easier to replace the CPU (and mobo though I really hope we don’t have to).
