this project is to make a solution of smaller case and better cooling than Deskmini X300 's orignal case:
the new case's size is 15.1cm* 14.2cm*4.2cm,about 0.9L/900cc
first,diy a heatsink with vapor chamber cold plate and all copper fins to help improve cooling performance,and apply a blower type fan to he heatsink,directly blow the hot air out of the case,like this:
the blower fan sucks cool air then blow througth the fins ,and hot air goes out off the case from the rear:
flow soldering the fins to the vapor chamber plate (square LGA2011),together with the conversion bracket(LGA2011-AM4):
paint the heatsink with matte black ,made it look better:
still can see the color of copper at the base:
try mount it onto the X300 STX board,not bad:
the blower fan fits well too,seems it can help some cooling of the M2 ssd:
rear of the heatsink:
about the same height as the memory module:
maximize the scales of fins using all available space,and still in low profile:
the heatsink is mounted by 4 M3 screws from the back of STX board:
do some test,temp is accepable since i am only using a 65watts 3400G:
when bench GPU and CPU in the same time,max power from my tiny GAN charger is about 120watts:
and here is my unqiue screwless simple case:
preserved an opening of AC power input connector for internal GAN power module:
to be continued:
complete case ;
120watts 5cm * 2.6cm *1.8cm 20V 6A Gan adaptor;
180watts 8cm * 4cm *3cm 16V11A Si adaptor;
2021.3.22
finished paiting the upper case:
the upper case also touch the cpu heatsink's fins to help cooling,so when the CPU is in idle or low load condition,the blower fan can be pwm tuned to very low rpm,nearly passive cooling by the case.
rear looking:
the new case's size is 15.1cm* 14.2cm*4.2cm,about 0.9L/900cc
first,diy a heatsink with vapor chamber cold plate and all copper fins to help improve cooling performance,and apply a blower type fan to he heatsink,directly blow the hot air out of the case,like this:
the blower fan sucks cool air then blow througth the fins ,and hot air goes out off the case from the rear:
flow soldering the fins to the vapor chamber plate (square LGA2011),together with the conversion bracket(LGA2011-AM4):
paint the heatsink with matte black ,made it look better:
still can see the color of copper at the base:
try mount it onto the X300 STX board,not bad:
the blower fan fits well too,seems it can help some cooling of the M2 ssd:
rear of the heatsink:
about the same height as the memory module:
maximize the scales of fins using all available space,and still in low profile:
the heatsink is mounted by 4 M3 screws from the back of STX board:
do some test,temp is accepable since i am only using a 65watts 3400G:
when bench GPU and CPU in the same time,max power from my tiny GAN charger is about 120watts:
and here is my unqiue screwless simple case:
preserved an opening of AC power input connector for internal GAN power module:
to be continued:
complete case ;
120watts 5cm * 2.6cm *1.8cm 20V 6A Gan adaptor;
180watts 8cm * 4cm *3cm 16V11A Si adaptor;
2021.3.22
finished paiting the upper case:
the upper case also touch the cpu heatsink's fins to help cooling,so when the CPU is in idle or low load condition,the blower fan can be pwm tuned to very low rpm,nearly passive cooling by the case.
rear looking:
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