Happy to know my redneck engineering made you laugh! It was either that or a custom water loop.
i mean there are things that work and that are stupid, and will stay stupid. using toothpaste for example as thermal paste is doable and you can get usable temps with it. but the con is that toothpaste dries up very quickly, requiring you to need to constantly reapply it.
it works, but its still a stupid idea.
It's also way more quiet than those damn pesky 1U fans and I had the space available in my rack
No it's just a 1U server. It does mean that the next 3U over the server can't be fully used (switches would probably clear). That server pretty much replaced my whole stack except for my NAS so I had space available.
So .. you have to remove your CPU cooler to open the case? That does not look very convenient.
The top has just enough slide room to disengage from the chassis and be pulled upward. Being able to hotswap components is a requirementfor my case.