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Here are a few snapshots of the two power connectors. The one on the front panel PCB says "ATX IN", and it is just two wires. The connection to the mainboard is 4 wires and it just says "DC IN". Both are split off of the barrel connector attached to the power brick, which is 19.5 V, 6.92 A...

I would like to, but am not really sure how to do that. The power connectors on the motherboard seem to be an uncommon sort.

Though I will say just taking the motherboard out of the case and running it naked cuts the noise down significantly. I now have an RTX 3060 Ti hooked up to it via a PCIe 4 adapter. Works great! I may get an AIO CPU cooler and just stick it on top of the factory heat block and see if it helps...

Well, no... it still gets loud (e.g. compiling linux kernel). It does have a cleaner sound, which is nice, I guess. But I still want to figure out some way to use a desktop cooler with it.

I decided to clean and gently polish the heatsink and cpu (isopropyl alcohol, soft paper towel) disassemble the blower fan, clean the blades and casing, reassemble apply some fresh thermal paste (Corsair TM30) Reattach the radiator and fan. It really has made a difference! I've had all...

In case anyone is still interested, here's a teardown shot (couldn't figure out how to get the image to render inline). I have been looking for some aftermarket cooler that I can slap on this thing. I intend to run it naked in a testbench frame, and once my PCIe Gen. 4 NVMe adapter from...