@aquelito , how did you figure out the correct length of your mounting standoffs while still providing sufficient mounting pressure for an LGA socket? Or is the retention bracket on your motherboard strong enough to provide that by itself? Also, are you just fastening the standoffs with nuts on the back of the motherboard, or do you have some sort of backplate there as well?
Looks nice! One question: how are you mounting these coolers? Are you making your own brackets? If so, how?So, I just finished to adapt an other oldschool beast from Thermalright, the Thermalright T-Rad2, this time to cool an i3 7100.
With a 28 mm height only, I though it would the perfect candidate for low profile passive cooling.
Well, results are less convincing than the Shaman.
After 7 min of Handbrake bench, both cores would reach 79°C.
Idle temp was around 30°.
A slow 60 mm fan on top of the heatsink would keep the temperatures in line.
74°C after 20 min of Handbrake.
I've checked several times and the contact between the CPU and heatsink seems good.
I'll try using shorter standoffs.
It looks good though.
If that could affect the heatpipes efficency, did you try to change the case orientation to see if you get better temps?So, I just finished to adapt an other oldschool beast from Thermalright, the Thermalright T-Rad2, this time to cool an i3 7100.
With a 28 mm height only, I though it would the perfect candidate for low profile passive cooling.
Well, results are less convincing than the Shaman.
After 7 min of Handbrake bench, both cores would reach 79°C.
Idle temp was around 30°.
Looks nice! One question: how are you mounting these coolers? Are you making your own brackets? If so, how?
Yeah, doesn't sound difficult, I just can't find anyone doing that kind of work for even semi-reasonable prices here in Norway. Guess that's a consequence of living in a small country. Paying >$100 for a tiny mounting bracket isn't all that tempting when the same price can get you a high-end LP air cooler with money to spare. Suppose it's a good thing my HTPC project is on hold - I'll have more time to source my cooler mounting bracketYes I had custom aluminium brackets laser-cut to fit the heatsink existing mounting holes.
It only takes a few measurements and a couple of minutes in CAD !
That would be absolutely brilliant! I don't have a design ready, and won't have time to put one together for the next few weeks at least (work trips and lots of stuff happening), but if I could get back to you at a later time I would absolutely love that. I'm not in any rush (it looks like my HTPC upgrade won't happen until 2020, barring a sudden influx of money and better-than-expected performance from 3000-series APUs - currently I'm hoping for a 7nm Zen2+Navi APU ), so I'd of course be willing to wait until whenever you're able to fit it in.To be honest, I just add these small pieces to much larger orders !
I get them basically for almost free
If you need, you can send me the DWG files of your brackets and I'll add them to my next order (possibly next month).
You'll just have to pay for postage to Norway + few euros for the cutting.
Have you considered deshrouding the GPU to use one large fan over both GPU and CPU?