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    Compex WLE200NX card Heat Sinks

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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
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        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
              last edited by

              @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
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                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
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                      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 2.8.0 CE
                            Packages: Apcupsd, Cron, Iftop, Iperf, LCDproc, Nmap, pfBlockerNG, RRD_Summary, Shellcmd, Snort, Speedtest, System_Patches.

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