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Final mounting and benchmark
10/16/2023 at 22:00 • 0 commentsFinally I 3D printed a mount for a slim DVD drive, mounted a USB/SD Card front pannel on the alu profiles and a 3D printed fixture and mounted the front plane on some wood spacers and applied an old Apple sticker :-)
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Build finished - but the challenge began !
10/16/2023 at 21:53 • 0 commentsAfter soldering the power connector I had everything to start the first tests .... also the benchmarks had not been too bad the CPU got very hot and the system was not really stable....
I glued temperature sensors to several positions of the alu cooler and the copper blocks and used an Arduino Nano to measure the temperature at different positions.
I had teh feeling that some of teh pipes did not work correctly and asked for help in the internet. After some de-mounting and remounting, bending of 3 new heat pipes and finding that the orientation of the PC was quite important for the performance, I finally solved my challenges. Please see here for more information on the debugging: -
Putting it together with thermal paste
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Bending and mounting the heat pipes
10/16/2023 at 21:39 • 0 commentsFirst I 3D printed a heatr pipe bender. This worked well but maybe I was not carefull enough in the beginning when bending, you will read later whey ...
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Preparing the copper blocks to connect the heatpipes
10/16/2023 at 21:30 • 0 commentsTo guide the drilling and get exact dimenions I pre-milled the copper blocks a bit less than the final holes. Putting each copper block next to the other ensured that they will later fit to each other when flipped.
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Marriage of housing and mainboard
10/16/2023 at 21:20 • 0 commentsI printed the layout of the mainboard holes, punshed, drilled and and tapped holes to mount teh mainboard as well as the alu frame.
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The housing by alu profiles and two massive alu ribbon coolers
10/16/2023 at 21:09 • 0 commentsBefore I ordered the parts and started the build, I draw a rough 3D scetch of the build to get an idea of the dimensions.
After the cooler and the aluminium profiles (20x20) arrived, the build started: