[Neuromancer]

Well since I can not run open right now, had to install in a case.

NZXT Zero is the coolest running case I have ever used. The antec 900 is a sweat box comparitvely

I am not much on aesthetics. More of a ghetto modder. This case however needed no modifications for airflow. Only thing I did was remove some aluminum behind the HDD cage for wire management and reran the case wires under the cage.


Added the tuniq tower with HS yate in the center, strapped a panaflo as exhaust to it (was using it for push before but the Pi ram sits too high, and my soon to be here Blades also will be too tall)

Dropped a mem sink on the speed controller, as per recommendation in the M4A79 thread over at XS, and also checked hte singks on the mobo. Only had 2 boards in recent history that ever had problems with heat.. real common, but took my AS5 syringe and carefully, dabbed a bit on the center of the chips (and very very very carefully did so on the fets)

MY 2 tubes of MX2 arrived today just 12 hours after pieceing this back together lol ahh well.


The Victim



In case anyone else has this board and notices it runs warm... this is the speed control chip. Better safe than sorry, cleaned it up and used a piece of seiksui thermal tape.



AM2/+/3 uses a clip to hold on the heatsink. Does a decent job, but with a 4 pound heatsink... not so much...

Took a 1U aluminum heatsink chopped it down to fit inside the tuniq, had to drill a hole in the center to hold the tuniq on hte tiny "pin" that keeps it centered




Yah as I said... ghetto mods

Panaflo 120x38mm held on with Baling Wire (I forgot to put the grill on it first so it does not rub the heatsink oops!, it does not need on in the push config, if you do not mind bloody knuckles when you do the touch test on components in the vicinty lol)



and





Fully installed with the 150GB raptor new XP OS drive the 500GB WD Black series storage "pagefile" drive.






It aint purdy. But it was pretty inexpensive. Pretty is for desktop/websurfing boxen IMHO, not balls out, weekly overhauled machines.


Well that is my opinion anyway.