Ongoing Passive Cooling Thread / Projects with several enclosures on itx-boards (1 Viewer)

[OnkelChris]

thats unfair... i want to have a cnc mill, too.

 

[polarie]

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@ svenhutt

good tool ... would be happy if i could have that too ...

@ all

well some new things here...

miniITX AM2+ with G780
complete passiv
temps: CPU 40-44 / G780 ~ 50°C couse heatpipe-systems (direct-touch dev.by IchEssBlumen and my drilling-press )

maybe IEB wanna post also some pics

 

[ichessblumen]

not so much pictures from me here...just a short explanation for our homebrewed coolig solution.

the CPU cooler was made of a layer of 2 pieces of 5mm thick copper. we drilled in 3 holes for the heatpipes and then and fastened it with a standard bolt thru kit.

the gpu was bit more difficult. I've seen on a lot of coolers, that the heatpipes are squeezed in and so we tried it, to save material,weight and space. same method as above but we drilled a bit wider and then squeezed the heatpipe in. one half for the big enclosure cooling block and the other for the gpu cooler. it had the advantage that we could retro-fit the gpu cooler on the heatpipe-copper element with no hassle of producing new parts.

Next steps are :

- dvbs-2 card and test of 1080i HDTV.
- custom made faceplate (already ordered)

We've already tested .mkv in 1080p which runs smooth. the power consumption was around 55 W.
Ahh, polarie forgot to mention, that we used an Athlon X2 235e.

Here's the picture with all mounted coolers in the empty housing.( I forgot to bring my cam in, so we had to use a mobile phone's cam, so not very crisp picture)

More to come.
ieb

 

[polarie]

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last few days IEB did same drawing of aa frontpanel ...
yesterday it arrived ... i thought it will good to check the frontpanel -(before we eloxadize it)
if all if the breakouts fit and all that stuff ...

@ IEB

GOOD JOB mate ...
fits all smooth and fine ...

so i think we are near the maturity phase ...
so that we can take the orders for this case soon

 

[ichessblumen]

polarie, looks good indeed.

btw, your mobile phone cam tooks abit blurry pictures, especially the closeups.

I hope you'll get it black anodized next week and take better pics...

 

[svenhatt]

Here is an update on the Serener GA-L01 project.

Got the case last week, looks very good Bought an heatsink for a VIA ex mb with it, think it should fit with some minor mod. In the weekend I cut out the hole for the VFD on the frontpanel and stripped the paint, polished alu looks nice. Later this week i get the AT3N7A-I, Intel® X25-M ssd, and a sony slot in dvd

Frontpanel

Heatsink

 

[polarie]

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hmmmmmmmm looks amazing good .... lov that ...
although i prefer black

but looks real good ...

 

[svenhatt]

Here are some more pictures of the heatpipe mounted on the AT3N7A-I. Fits perfectly

Used the original heatsink and modifided it.

Had to bend the heatpipe to make a small gap to the capacitor.

 

[polarie]

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that looks cool ...
we also used the original aloy cooler as a holding unit für the heat-pipe-block ...

hmm good work ...

 

[polarie]

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@ svenhatt

any news ?
new Pictures?

i am still curious ....