Hey!
I got reminded of a stupid picture I took with a Mini-Box M350 I took forever ago and decided it might be a fun project to build with Raven Ridge to hold me over until I build a proper desktop. The basic idea I have is to cut a something like a ~140mm hole in the top of the case and use a "-to-90mm" adapter to force a bunch of air onto a CPU cooler, whether it's something like the Noctua NH-L9a or whatever else.
I'm wondering what other fun/obnoxious stuff I could do with the case while I'm at it...
Any ideas for what could be done to the front panel area of the case? Originally what enchanted me about the M350 was that it has that cavity in the front panel for USB devices. As I've looked more into this stuff, it wouldn't be all that hard to salvage that functionality with or without the stock PCB that has the USB ports and the power switch. It would definitely be a nice tactile upgrade to replace the stock power "button" mechanism.
Going WAY overboard (and probably with a different CPU), I'm considering bidding on an MXM video card I see online... any ideas on how I could help cool something like that in this case? (Edit: Dang, I bid on a MXM GTX 1070 that was at $420, but whoever wants it outbid my max of $500 and I don't want to pay more than that. I don't see any other deals out there.)
Assuming I'm not slotting an MXM GPU into the PCI-E slot of my board, do you have any ideas for PCIe devices that I could put in there instead? Ones that could either be maneuvered with a riser, or otherwise don't need I/O.
I got reminded of a stupid picture I took with a Mini-Box M350 I took forever ago and decided it might be a fun project to build with Raven Ridge to hold me over until I build a proper desktop. The basic idea I have is to cut a something like a ~140mm hole in the top of the case and use a "-to-90mm" adapter to force a bunch of air onto a CPU cooler, whether it's something like the Noctua NH-L9a or whatever else.
I'm wondering what other fun/obnoxious stuff I could do with the case while I'm at it...
Any ideas for what could be done to the front panel area of the case? Originally what enchanted me about the M350 was that it has that cavity in the front panel for USB devices. As I've looked more into this stuff, it wouldn't be all that hard to salvage that functionality with or without the stock PCB that has the USB ports and the power switch. It would definitely be a nice tactile upgrade to replace the stock power "button" mechanism.
Going WAY overboard (and probably with a different CPU), I'm considering bidding on an MXM video card I see online... any ideas on how I could help cool something like that in this case? (Edit: Dang, I bid on a MXM GTX 1070 that was at $420, but whoever wants it outbid my max of $500 and I don't want to pay more than that. I don't see any other deals out there.)
Assuming I'm not slotting an MXM GPU into the PCI-E slot of my board, do you have any ideas for PCIe devices that I could put in there instead? Ones that could either be maneuvered with a riser, or otherwise don't need I/O.
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