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    Compex WLE200NX card Heat Sinks

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    • stephenw10S
      stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
      last edited by

      Mmm, I wouldn't consider that hot either.

      AFAIK we have never had an issue with that card. I'm not sure how many we sold back when we used to sell them. quite a few though. None had heatsinks.

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      • JonathanLeeJ
        JonathanLee
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        Every once in a while when my son is playing online gaming it gets a bit hot. I have seen it restart the firewall once also after a long day of gaming also that is why I suspect it’s overheating, it gives no errors before restart. This has happened once or twice when I first configured it.

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        • stephenw10S
          stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
          last edited by

          Why do you think the wifi card was the cause of the restart?

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          • JonathanLeeJ
            JonathanLee @stephenw10
            last edited by

            @stephenw10 it has the bss errors before it restarted,

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            • stephenw10S
              stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
              last edited by

              More than normal? It can be dependent on the wifi environment but here, where it's very busy, I see errors in the wifi log all the time.

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              • JonathanLeeJ
                JonathanLee @stephenw10
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                @stephenw10 I have a bunch of errors on the stats page but that just seems like traffic errors.

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                • stephenw10S
                  stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                  last edited by

                  Adding a heatsink is unlikely to hurt. If it's repeatable a fan would prove it.

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                  • JonathanLeeJ
                    JonathanLee
                    last edited by

                    IMG_0086.jpeg

                    That is the errors on it.

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                    • JonathanLeeJ
                      JonathanLee @stephenw10
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                      @stephenw10 they have a fan that would work with a 2100???

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                      • stephenw10S
                        stephenw10 Netgate Administrator
                        last edited by

                        I mean to prove it's an overheating issue just point a fan at it. Could even just be a desk fan. It's designed to be passively cooled so any additional cooling will reduce temps a lot.

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                        • JonathanLeeJ
                          JonathanLee
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                          I am now getting 29C on the SSD and it use to start up at 36C that was amazing to see.

                          The wireless card now has my heat sink also. It’s got a lot going on inside this guy. Summer is coming up.

                          Screenshot 2024-01-20 at 00.12.40.jpeg

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                          • JonathanLeeJ
                            JonathanLee
                            last edited by JonathanLee

                            I think this one overheated….

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                            (T-800 brain cpu)

                            It looks amazing with the copper heat sink….

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                            • fireodoF
                              fireodo @JonathanLee
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                              @JonathanLee said in Compex WLE200NX card Heat Sinks:

                              I think this one overheated….

                              IMG_0093.jpeg
                              (T-800 brain cpu)

                              It looks amazing with the copper heat sink….

                              😂 👍 😂

                              Kettop Mi4300YL CPU: i5-4300Y @ 1.60GHz RAM: 8GB Ethernet Ports: 4
                              SSD: SanDisk pSSD-S2 16GB (ZFS) WiFi: WLE200NX
                              pfsense 2.7.2 CE
                              Packages: Apcupsd Cron Iftop Iperf LCDproc Nmap pfBlockerNG RRD_Summary Shellcmd Snort Speedtest System_Patches.

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