Fanless PC with Proxmox hosting Pfsense & Kubuntu 23.04 - Cooling ideas!
Fanless PC with Proxmox hosting Pfsense & Kubuntu 23.04 - Cooling ideas!
Hello Redditers,
i built a Proxmox homeLAB with Fanless Box that i bought from internet (CPU N5105 - RAM 16 - Storage Nvme 256). i'm running Pfsense 2.6 VM as home Firewall and gateway (LAN GW + WAN), and another VM with Kubuntu 23.04 OS.
Temperature while using just Pfsense is around 40°
Temperature while using both VMs Pfrense and Kubuntu is around 60°
i'm looking now for a solution to cool down the Box temperature (thinking of small fan but afraid that will be noisy specially i sleep near the setup)
Many thanks
T_JUNCTION for N5105 is 105 C.
You don't need to cool it at least until it hits 80.
0i bought a fan connected via usb, and i added script that trigger the fan once the tempreture goes beyond 70 degrees and stop once below 50 degrees
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