My only solution is noisy air cooling. Like a server. While water cooling is now a thing. Air cooling is the king.
Hi Jack 
Thank you so much for your thoughts! Although I am currently adverse to using watercooling, I am certain if my line of thinking changes down the line I will be considering your advice. Seems to be a great option to avoid potential headaches.
Ngl that looks like an awesome chassis to build in. According to the technical data/specs though, it only takes 3 x120mm fans but by appearances it looks like it could hold 5. Either way, its less than the 6 I can mount on the silverstone. A good recommendation though and I am certainly thinking about it. Especially if I can mount a 165mm CPU cooler (i’ll have to check that later). 
Agreed. When I was originally going to order from Puget the Pro was $2k less as the non-Pro version at same specs. But sadly, parting them out with a Pro 24-core and WX MB its more expensive going to 8x 64 GB sticks than 4 128GB sticks from what I found I could buy from. Might be a regional thing, idk.
More or less what I was asking
Will I have enough air current with the setup I linked?
Ah! Thank you so much!
Going into an adjacent room separated by 10inch, decoupled walls. I think I’ll be fine with noises. Please recommend solutions away!
I’m curious about all the concerns over the air cooled CPU. Didn’t we have a L1 video on that specific cooler, saying it worked well?
interestingly, i building an almost identical system (posted about it in the pc builder sub-forum), although with a traditional tower case, so hopefully i didn’t make a huge mistake 
Well for starters… I obviously missed this video (yeesh!!) so thank you so much!
And second, mainly was just asking because I heard from too many that air cooling these CPU’s was falling short but it appears to be poor testing and/or not testing products that work as a solution (from those who told me otherwise).
Just asking opinions before I bought since I have found these forums give so many viewpoints by asking a (in my opinion) simple question. Which is why I have decided to always ask for perspectives from the forums for my third opinion/starting points after research (not Gospel truth but another opinion none-the-less). Honestly, everyone thoughts so far have been extremely valuable on every post I’ve made so far, so thank you all!
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Just fully watched the video. It is a different cooler in the video compared to what I was talking about in my original post, just an FYI. The video shows the SP3 version, the one in I was looking at/wanted Puget to test was the SP6 model. According to NOCTUA’s NSPR rating is 50+ higher, 120mm fans vs 140mm fans, etc… so theres that.
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right, i think we want the NH-U14S TR5-SP6 for the sTR5
it still seems relevant, it suggests they are doing a reasonable job with this cpu line
A TR into a 5U is always going to be an issue especially with Air cooling but like all cooling it is determined by what your ambient temp is… Is your Rack room AC controlled?
Yeah, if Noctua had competitive parts they’d be able to rate for socket power in watts like most companies do instead of resorting to marketing constructs like NSPR and making up overclockability ratings. The NF-A14/15 impeller on the NH-U14S TR5-SP6’s pretty average, so is easily a downgrade from 120 options, though at least Noctua puts the NF-A15 HS rather than the 1200 RPM version.
@lemma ,
Are you suggesting the NH-U14S TR5-SP6 is inadequate for the TR?
I’ve just ordered one to go with a 7970X (although in a Dark Base Pro 901 case).
Do you have a different air cooled recommendation for this CPU? Should I replace the fans? If so, suggestions?
Wouldn’t something like a XED120 WS be a good TR air cooler? Phoronix has it performing within 1 deg C of the WE360-SP5 AIO in their testing:
Also it can hold 30mm thick 120mm fans so it can be outfitted with a T30 fan which is basically the pinnacle of quiet fans that can still perform.
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fwiw, i found this list of coolers on an older l1 thread that are supposed to meet specs for the tr 7000 series:
the Noctua NH-U14S TR5-SP6, NH-D9 TR5-SP6 4U, Arctic Freezer 4U-M and abee FUNCTION 4844 are listed as compatible for this application
I have rarely seen the room go above 61 F. Maybe spiked to ~70 F one really hot summer. Winter its usually sitting in the middle/upper 50’s.
But thats also NOT with this system in it but my former TR 2950x / 1080TI computer and other equipment.
Agreed, just mentioning there must be a difference between the two models. Also, planning to replace the fans on the CPU cooler with the industrial 3000RPM fans since they’re both 140mm fans. They’ll move 158.5 CFM in a push-pull config
Huh, cool! (no pun intended). I’ll have to check that out. Thank you for the recommendation/information!
I’ll have to check that out. Thank you for the recommendation/information!
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