Silencing a HP Workstation - can it be done?
Posted: Wed Jan 01, 2020 1:28 am
Happy New Year guys!
New year, new challenge; i've been looking at the performance of Dual Xeon workstations and really thinking about giving one a go later this month. Per core prices for the CPU's seem to be much cheaper than desktop processors, and the RAM is also seriously scalable and cheap.
On the downside, i'm a bit less enthusiastic about having to put up with an ugly HP case (especially a used one) and then the key questions that we're all here for; how to silence it!
I'm looking at this machine - https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/hp-z8 ... e-to-order
Has anyone got experience with re-casing this beast? What about fans and power supplies? It looks like a standard ATX board so any reason why I couldn't just start from scratch with a new chassis and liquid cooling?
I've searched a bit through the forum but can't find much history on this type of build/rebuild, so any advice would be great
New year, new challenge; i've been looking at the performance of Dual Xeon workstations and really thinking about giving one a go later this month. Per core prices for the CPU's seem to be much cheaper than desktop processors, and the RAM is also seriously scalable and cheap.
On the downside, i'm a bit less enthusiastic about having to put up with an ugly HP case (especially a used one) and then the key questions that we're all here for; how to silence it!
I'm looking at this machine - https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/hp-z8 ... e-to-order
Has anyone got experience with re-casing this beast? What about fans and power supplies? It looks like a standard ATX board so any reason why I couldn't just start from scratch with a new chassis and liquid cooling?
I've searched a bit through the forum but can't find much history on this type of build/rebuild, so any advice would be great