Today the fan clicked a little when I first turned the unit on. After a couple of minutes it disappeared. When I do go in to repaste, I'll see if I can put in a better fan as well. The fan speed was really low, lower than I had ever seen, so perhaps the fan doesn't like being undervolted too much. It was at 1088RPM when I noticed the noise disappeared, but I was out of the room and didn't follow the progression precisely.
Update - It's either a defective fan or it's clipping a loose wire or something. At boot the fan was at 948RPM and made the slight clicking sound. After a minute or so the noise disappeared, and the fan was still at 948RPM. My CPU temps do seem to be dropping now compared to before. Perhaps the paste is properly cured now. I want to get it apart to check the fan, so I'll still be applying the Arctic MX-4.
Anyone know the size and shape of the fan? I hope it's standard and not a specialty deal.
Update 2 - It is definitely Windows maintenance that is pushing up the SSD temps as speculated in an earlier post. It is well within normal range at all other times, but jumps up to a max of 78C with 100% read, write and total activity during maintenance. The close proximity to the WiFi/BT module probably doesn't help,either. Hopefully the occasional bump won't cause long term issues. I'd like to get at least three years of use out of it.
Update 3 - I have seen in the event logs that both TRIM and defragmentation have occurred. There has been some reporting that Windows 8/8.1 has a bug where SSDs are still being defragged. There is a blog with a fix, but MS says it is just a reporting error. I will keep monitoring it.
I'm going to start another custom build soon, turning an old radio into a nice m-ITX build with an i3-4330. I assume it would be a bit slower in Dolphin with the HD 4600 because the HD 5200, not the i5-5470, seems to be the bottleneck in the Brix Pro. It should make a nice HTPC though.
Update - It's either a defective fan or it's clipping a loose wire or something. At boot the fan was at 948RPM and made the slight clicking sound. After a minute or so the noise disappeared, and the fan was still at 948RPM. My CPU temps do seem to be dropping now compared to before. Perhaps the paste is properly cured now. I want to get it apart to check the fan, so I'll still be applying the Arctic MX-4.
Anyone know the size and shape of the fan? I hope it's standard and not a specialty deal.
Update 2 - It is definitely Windows maintenance that is pushing up the SSD temps as speculated in an earlier post. It is well within normal range at all other times, but jumps up to a max of 78C with 100% read, write and total activity during maintenance. The close proximity to the WiFi/BT module probably doesn't help,either. Hopefully the occasional bump won't cause long term issues. I'd like to get at least three years of use out of it.
Update 3 - I have seen in the event logs that both TRIM and defragmentation have occurred. There has been some reporting that Windows 8/8.1 has a bug where SSDs are still being defragged. There is a blog with a fix, but MS says it is just a reporting error. I will keep monitoring it.
I'm going to start another custom build soon, turning an old radio into a nice m-ITX build with an i3-4330. I assume it would be a bit slower in Dolphin with the HD 4600 because the HD 5200, not the i5-5470, seems to be the bottleneck in the Brix Pro. It should make a nice HTPC though.