discussion Xeon media center

[Izerous]

So started shoving a micro ATX Chinese x99 board into this Silverstone I yoinked from @ipaine and well heatsink options have been a nightmare. I had a couple the would have worked but are ever so slightly too tall.



Have another one that is short enough but the fan makes it so it contacts the DVD drive and I was the drive to actually work in this situation. So I have since pulled the fan off and that gives me just enough room to 3D print a duct to the rear 80mm fans to replace the removed 120mm fan.



So more messing around hunting for any spare 80mm fans I found a monstrosity from about 10 years ago. Place we were living in especially my kids room would get hot. So I built a nerdy swamp cooler.

Submersible pump went into the cooler filled with ice water. Pump plugged directly into the wall, fans powered by 5v phone charger I cut up and ice water pumped through the radiator chilling the air temperature in the bedroom (noticeable but only effective for about 30 minutes due to the small cooler of ice) but enough to help her sleep at night.



Anyways I'll post some more monstrosities from this media center idea as I hack it together just thought it would be fun to share a different monsocity of spare parts before I disassembled it for the fans.

Oh came with an adapter picked up a with cooler for cheap it didn't fit either. Too big of footprint for the adapter without cutting things.



Other absurdities I have a dual 80mm radiator that "could" fit and a water block that does fit. But the rad would interfere with the GPU because of the bulk head... Have spare pump and res a bit large but I could make it go together but the loss of the GPU slot is a no go and not going to buy a 120mm AIO when the goal is to buy as little as possible and use up stuff i have laying around and this was actually my original plan but forgot to take a photo with the water block mounted.

 

[JD]

That sucks, looks like it's only a couple mm away from fitting too. Suppose you don't want to mount the radiator on the back of the case instead?

This looks like the fairly "standard" Silverstone mATX case layout, so you have 2x120mm along the top of motherboard right? Couldn't affix the 2x80mm radiator there up near the top of the case lid? Might clear the VRM heatsink and maybe enough space for the CPU block?

 

[Izerous]

That sucks, looks like it's only a couple mm away from fitting too. Suppose you don't want to mount the radiator on the back of the case instead?

This looks like the fairly "standard" Silverstone mATX case layout, so you have 2x120mm along the top of motherboard right? Couldn't affix the 2x80mm radiator there up near the top of the case lid? Might clear the VRM heatsink and maybe enough space for the CPU block?

I considered making a "fan wall" between the MB and PSU with a 2x120mm radiator that I have on hand (not typical for me to have anything smaller than 3x120mm fans on hand I usually don't assemble anything but full sized ATX/E-ATX systems with custom loops) but wasn't quite happy with all the holes I was going to have to drill to make that work. And half of it would basically be wasted due to the PSU itself unless i was to buy a SFF psu.

I had not considered adapting the dual 120's above the board for the dual 80mm rad... I don't know if there is enough clearance. I'll end up dry fitting that tonight and if that works then I'll model some adapters for that instead of modeling a fan duct between the 80s and this tower I have mounted now.

 

[Shadowarez]

I have a full copper super low profile 2011 cooler mounting is odd but she screams like a Banshee.

 

[Izerous]

A bunch of projects got put on hold including this one but made some progress last night.

Had torn down the Xbox 360S to install the Noctua a9x14 last night and realized a a9x25 would fit with only modifications to the fan frame, also turns out the a9x14 solves some clearance problems with the tower cooler in this machine and now have just enough room for a low profile sata 22 pin 90 degree adapter. I was trying to make ducting to the twin 80mm fans but my 3d model design skills need some work and just wants getting the results I was after. But the ducting is no longer necessary with the a9x14.

Adapter and a9x25 both show up tomorrow now so should be able to wrap up both projects.

 

[Shadowarez]

i have to hunt down the mod chip and a few other bits but man i cannot wait to mod the OG Xbox mainly clean out the psu,recapp,modchip, and maybe a 16TB Seagate Exos thats been in my desk for better part of a year no one wanted as addon to rigs i sold woulda sold for $220 but now jebus might as well make the old girl a Data Hoard.

 

[Izerous]

90 degree adapter showed up by the time I got home from work. Combined with the thin Noctua gives me millimeters to spare but it clears.