Recent content by robbee

Nice, I've always been fond of wooden cases and this one looks spot on. How confident are you that the screw holes that hold the side panel closed will not wear out over time? The screws seem to thread directly into the wood, with very little material around them. Some kind of metal threaded...

These coolers are milled from pre-skived blocks. Reducing the height of the fins requires specialized equipment, a CNC mill won't be able to do that cleanly without damaging the fins. To customize dimensions, I need to place a bulk order. There are standard dimensions that I can buy with a MOQ...

You can deshroud the passive cooler, but it will perform worse than the copper cooler. While the weight is only a bit less, the fins have much less contact surface and the orientation is suboptimal for axial fans.

This sounds very similar to something I have already made for a customer's RTX 4000 SFF Ada, basically a baseplate with the HDPlex block soldered or screwed into it. It doesn't use the fins you mentioned, though, not sure how much difference that would make.

If it’s any help, FedEx is usually quite a bit cheaper to ship to the US if you go through the intake with a sales representative.

I am, in fact, checking if I can come up with something ITX length for the 5060 ti... :)

Is that an official thing? I know of a recent example where Lenovo place the connector facing the rear on the RTX 4060 used in their prebuilts. Although these cards don't retail outside of prebuilts, which may explain the different rules set by Nvidia.

I know a nice way to give your 4000 SFF that sweet silver shine… 😁

Reversing indeed makes more sense to get the hot air out of your case, but convection is negligible once there is some airflow inside your case.

For ITX it’s indeed perfect, but I was referring to STX, which has about the same dimension length-wise

Would be a great fit with a Mini STX motherboard if the power connector wasn't aimed to the rear 😞

It looks like they took a centrifugal fan they usually use in full height blower card and then shrunk the cooler as much as possible around it. Unfortunately, it is still taller than half-height so won't fit in 99% of the low-profile cases :(

The original poster never made this but you get get one on n3rdware.com

There are some ‘grey’ import routes between China and Europe that avoid VAT altogether. Eg. Superbuy often uses them, Yeston probably does too. Belgium actually receives a massive fine from Europe a couple of weeks ago because of this, but it didn’t seem to change anything yet. Customs are just...

Great temps, happy everything worked out in the end!