Gigabyte GA-MA78-S2H passive and diy-enclosure

[ichessblumen]

wohoo, update...update

I'm close to fall asleep, but just wanna show the small progress of this late night work.

I think you'll recognize what's this gonna be...therefor just pics. ;-)















Okay, a few words here. Upon special wish...I think it's recognizeable how I fabricated the "flushed in" mesh.



Good n8. :yawn:

[flokel]

Nice work

[ichessblumen]

Thanks flokel...

And time for an update.

This is the work of two long evenings and a sunday.
It doesn't look much, but t'was timeconsuming all that soldering, filing and and assembling and disassembling while I tried the components to fit.

That's the emergency fan which is now shroudless, that the air can paas out. I call it "Free Wheely" ...


Here , that's the wire harness. Only the needed contacst. No more no less. But took me some time.



And that's the result. Viewed from top you can see...all wires in a fine order.



And then I thought over and over agin, what sort of acrylic I should use for the display.
I tried an acrylic two way mirror...but I didn't like it. Was too much silverish in the front.
Blue, yes blue... ahh, found a forlorn piece in the garden shed and cut it right away.



wohoo, and after that I tried how it looks like. Well, see...



Ather that I was quiet happy with the look of it and installed OS and the VFD driver plus software and it turns out like this.... :rock:



another view



viewe from the right top angle




I'd say: "Finished"...

Some last things are over.

I want to put a usb port between the fins on the left side coz on the backside is not very convienent.

Of course final pics have to be made. I think I'll do that when I've set up the whole rig
in my drawing room and when mediaportal will be installed.
I'll report then about the temps...

So long.

[ThaClown]

Simply amazing, looks great and I love the fins...
How is the temp? os the passive cooling working?

[Ent]

There are not words.
I want to build my case.
I'm trying to draw the model and in the meantime I bought components (cpu, mb, hd, gpu).
I haven't chosen the heatsink and I like your solution: You mod a heatsink (which) or is there some kits.
I looked long for the web, the one that I found is of hfx.

Thank you, still

[ichessblumen]

Originally Posted by ThaClown

Simply amazing, looks great and I love the fins...
How is the temp? os the passive cooling working?

thank you for the nice words.

I tried a blu-ray and works okay at an average cpu usage of 35% more or less.
The temperature was shown by gibabyte software "EasyTune5" and gives out 55°C during BR playback.
The fan runs then at 800 rpm . I've too fiddle around abit with this software to find out the best solution coz it doesn't still work at my full satisfaction.

Originally Posted by Ent

There are not words.
I want to build my case.
I'm trying to draw the model and in the meantime I bought components (cpu, mb, hd, gpu).
I haven't chosen the heatsink and I like your solution: You mod a heatsink (which) or is there some kits.
I looked long for the web, the one that I found is of hfx.

Thank you, still

thank you too. yes, the hfx came also to my mind when I planned this one. but was too expensive.
When you want to do the same, I found the heatpipes and the cpu block at Conrad Electronic

greetz.
ieb

[Ent]

thank for yours answer and patience..
Sorry me if so boring , I do not speak German (and my english is so bad).
In "Conrad Electronic" I found only the heatpipe.
Which German's word I must searching for "cpu block"?
Last, I do not understand which tool you used for bend the heatpipe
sorry

[flokel]

On the conrad page you can search for "wärmekoppelelement".
To bend a heatpipe you can use a "biegefeder"which is basically a long spring:

http://www.geberit.de/de/dergeberit/images/ILLU1726.png

[Ent]

Thank you!

[polarie]

@ IEB

sehr geil ....

hmm think next time we meet - we have to talk about small series ... ;-)