I'm looking at buying a new motherboard, and the Supermicro A2SDi-H-TF seems to be the best value/price for my needs here in Europe.
But I just can't figure out if I'll be able to keep it passively cooled with a SilverStone D380 chassis, with no specific airflow directed on the chip.
I see official TrueNAS mini boxes ship with a cooler, I see the AsRock Rack equivalent motherboard C3758D4I-4L ship with a cooler as well, and I see some posts here where people have had to add a cooler on it as well.
If there's no chance I can get it up and running without a cooler, then I may be better off with a newer Supermicro X11 series board: the X11SDV-4C-TLN2F is only slightly more expensive (+45€) and comes with a Xeon D-2123IT, significantly more beefy afaict, for which you HAVE to add a cooler for sure.
If I need to do the extra work of adding a cooler on a heatsink that does not accept one, then why not do it on this one?
Incidentaly, looking at the ASRockRack C3758D4I-4L board, I realize the price tag is a full 120€ less than the Supermicro equivalent A2SDi-H-TF. And it's got a cooler (that I probably will have to replace with a more silent one, but at least the screws are available on the heatsink already). But no 10Gb NIC. Adding a Chelsio T520 in order to get about the same feature would probably make it the same proce.
I'm trying to replace a failing C2550D4I, so I was looking at Supermicro as a more reliable option.
Any tip on this besides my original question welcome :)
But I just can't figure out if I'll be able to keep it passively cooled with a SilverStone D380 chassis, with no specific airflow directed on the chip.
I see official TrueNAS mini boxes ship with a cooler, I see the AsRock Rack equivalent motherboard C3758D4I-4L ship with a cooler as well, and I see some posts here where people have had to add a cooler on it as well.
If there's no chance I can get it up and running without a cooler, then I may be better off with a newer Supermicro X11 series board: the X11SDV-4C-TLN2F is only slightly more expensive (+45€) and comes with a Xeon D-2123IT, significantly more beefy afaict, for which you HAVE to add a cooler for sure.
If I need to do the extra work of adding a cooler on a heatsink that does not accept one, then why not do it on this one?
Incidentaly, looking at the ASRockRack C3758D4I-4L board, I realize the price tag is a full 120€ less than the Supermicro equivalent A2SDi-H-TF. And it's got a cooler (that I probably will have to replace with a more silent one, but at least the screws are available on the heatsink already). But no 10Gb NIC. Adding a Chelsio T520 in order to get about the same feature would probably make it the same proce.
I'm trying to replace a failing C2550D4I, so I was looking at Supermicro as a more reliable option.
Any tip on this besides my original question welcome :)