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I'm looking to buy this Supermicro Mini-ITX board for an upcoming NAS build: https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/motherboard/A2SDi-H-TF

The only thing is, it has an integrated CPU with passive cooling - has anyone had success swapping the passive for an active cooler on these boards? I'm a newbie when it comes to supermicro - just wondering if this is a regular thing to do.

Cheers!

Bob Arezina
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Short Answer is NO

Just looked at the supermicro store and there is no active cooler for this tipe of socket, simple because is a low TDP CPU (only 25W)

However you can DIY a Fan on top of the heatsink, or maybe hack a basic Hyper 212X to work for this motherboard.

the simple solution here is to attach a small enough fan to the heatsink so it can actively move fresh air to it

I personally will prefer to a attach the fan to the heatsink, i've done it before on other cpus and it works fine, provided if also your NAS case has fans too (at least 1)

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You can find more related info here

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Hope it helps!

human_rosas
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