Many thanks to Small Form Factor Network Discord member LukeD for sharing this with the community. LukeD recently purchased and received an Acemagic Tank 03 SFF PC that had an unfortunate defect with the CPU fan. After speaking with the support team, Acemagic made a video showing how to teardown the Tank 03 in order to help him. LukeD captured a few screen shots from the video showing the internals of the Tank 03 with allow for some good takeaways.
- The CPU/GPU are mounted in a horizontal sandwich style layout with the CPU being on one side of the board and GPU on the other. The GPU is actually on an MXM style card that sits behind the CPU.
- As the GPU uses an MXM card slot, it’s theoretically could be upgraded.
- The CPU uses a custom motherboard and is facing the bottom of the case.
- The MXM GPU slot and RAM slots are on the “back” of the motherboard facing upward toward the top of the case.
- The CPU uses a laptop style blower cooling fan, and pushes hot air outside of the case.
- The MXM GPU is cooled by a large tower style cooler with axial fan, and ducting to ensure it exhausts out the back. It faces front to back in the case.
- The front IO Ports are actually built directly onto the motherboard. While this is common on this class of SFF machine, it will require a motherboard replacement if they break.
- The LEDs and front button/knob are a separate PCB.
- The RAM and rear IO are mounted on the “back of the motherboard” as well.
Check out LukeD’s Discord post on SFFN by CLICKING HERE.
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