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  1. 08-07-2004, 06:10 PM #1
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    My almost silent mini-P4

    Initial mesh metal cut for the sides...


    Bolts that hold everything together...


    PLaying with spacing...




    A SERIOUSLY cut up thermaltake silent tower. Man that thing had a lot of fins. Surprisingly the fins were not brazed and where not soldered. Just slid down ontop of the 6 heatpipes. I just took a flat head screwdriver to jimmy one lose then I could pull it off with my fingers. Took awhile but did no damage to the heatpipes...
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    Heatpipes after being bent and marking the heatsink for mounts...
    Pic 6

    Mounting holes made and initial brackets. I just cut up the fins I ripped off the heatsink to make the brackets.
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    Checking positioning. Its not show in the pic but I had to make another mounting backet as I couldnt get the stock one to work with the way I wanted the heatpipes oriented:




    Mostly assembled and running...



    Pretty much finished pics:








    Need to get a new PS (hopefully will fix my HT'ing probs) and will add a DVD/cd-rw laptop drive
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  2. 08-07-2004, 07:45 PM #2
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    Oh sweet jeebus! Most righteous.

    The heatsink is huge! I wanna know what kinda temps you're getting. How well is it handling all the heat?

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  3. 08-07-2004, 08:00 PM #3
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    with no fan and no breeze on it at all it gets too hot, 58c. I just threw the 92mm fan that comes with the silent tower ontop of the heatsink and its at does 46c-48c with 100% load after 2hours+. Just really started running it tonight so Im still learnin. think Im gonna find along slow rpm blower to put across the fins. Right now the loudest thing on here is the 40mm fan on the back of the PSU that Im thinking of replacing which sucks a lot.
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  4. 08-20-2004, 07:43 PM #4
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    Final pics posted. Two fans ontop are silent panaflo's that just cant be heard at all... The PS is the only thing I can hear other than the HD and its getting too hot. Gonna replace it with a PC-40 when I get the time.
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  6. 08-21-2004, 04:27 PM #5
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    where did you get the mesh?
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  7. 08-22-2004, 01:40 AM #6
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    Originally posted by kpxgq
    where did you get the mesh?
    A metal mesh trash can

    http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...319958313&rd=1

    Same item same dude.
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  8. 08-22-2004, 01:47 PM #7
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    did you solder the heatpipes to the heatsink, or did you screw them on with (what looks like) aliminium plates?
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    Originally posted by morphid
    did you solder the heatpipes to the heatsink, or did you screw them on with (what looks like) aliminium plates?
    Screwed aluminum plates down over the pipes. The "aluminum plates" you can see in the pics are just chopped up fins from the thermaltake heatsink.

    Id have to get some silver solder if I wanted to do that.
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  11. 08-23-2004, 06:59 AM #9
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    Can we get some SPECS? Looks like a ATI Card was added, what about Ram etc. If you can find a way to hide the Panaflo Wires that would be sweet. Need more PICS, looking Nice and would make a could entry for the contest starting soon.
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    Very nice work. Now for the question and answer part of our program:

    How did you end up bending the heatpipes?
    What temps are you running?
    What was the difficult part?
    What would you have done differently?
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    Originally posted by zackbass
    Very nice work. Now for the question and answer part of our program:

    How did you end up bending the heatpipes?
    What temps are you running?
    What was the difficult part?
    What would you have done differently?
    By hand and very slowely
    They bend very easily its just you have to put enough pressure on the sides as you bend to be sure it doesnt kink. Squeezing with my thumb and index finger was enough. The bends that it came with were already pretty kinked. If I tried to bend them that way instead of the way I did (so imaging rotating the base 90 degrees then making those bends) I would have kinked it right at the bottom.

    Temps right now are 44-48c on the proc. I have FaD running 24/7 so thats constant load temps.

    Most difficult part was just arranging stuff. I havent put a cdrom on it yet but Im going to get a laptop dvd/cdrw combo drive to put in there. That will probably be the hardest part, squeezng that in there.

    Only thing I would have done differently is used a different PS. I picked the wrong part for that... Other than that everything went as planned.

    I am thinking about doing the same thing for my HTPC since I got a slk800 on that and its VERY loud compared to this now But thats a barton and I dont feel comfortable mounting the base to it the way I did the P4...
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