Hello guys,
This thread is about designing a heat-pipe cooling system for my 100W server. Hopefully what I had in mind is doable and useful for cooling any Mini-PC.
The idea is to do a cooling system laptop-style: from one radiator that is cooled by a fan, multiple heat-pipes lgather the heat from: CPU, Chipset and eventually graphic(s) card(s).
Toolkit:
What coolers would you use as a base for dismemberment?
Would you rather do it with watercooling? In this case do you know if a loop without reservoir can work, weather there are max 1inch think 120mm/140mm radiators and what would be the minimum flow of a pump if it has to cool around 100W?
Thanks for reading, looking forward for ideas.
Edited by dragosmp - 8/21/08 at 8:15am
This thread is about designing a heat-pipe cooling system for my 100W server. Hopefully what I had in mind is doable and useful for cooling any Mini-PC.
The idea is to do a cooling system laptop-style: from one radiator that is cooled by a fan, multiple heat-pipes lgather the heat from: CPU, Chipset and eventually graphic(s) card(s).
Toolkit:
- The pads that stick to the heat-sources - It would be nice to make them myself, but this is not the purpose of this build.
- The CPU - Seeing my build is AM2, I thought of buying an Arctic Freezer 64 Pro and dismantle it for parts: on one hand I need the AM2 pad, on the other I need the radiator (see 2); the A64's heat-pipes would remain unused.
- The chipset - To keep it simple I've decided to get an nForce 8300 style mobo because it has only one chip to cool, but what are the heat-piped chipset coolers that fit onto 8200/8300 mobos?
- VID card(s) - for the moment I don't plan adding a graphic card, but tomorrow who knows? What would be a couple of heat-pipe cooling system or nowadays graphic cards (to strip them of their pads)?
- The radiator that is to be cooled by a silent Noctua fan will come from the A64 Pro
- The heat-pipes - I found a company nearby that manufactures heat-pipes and I'm going tomorrow to check it out. They make heat-pipes they say can transfer up to 25W which is pretty cool. The only essential thing is that they must fit the pads and the radiator.
What coolers would you use as a base for dismemberment?
Would you rather do it with watercooling? In this case do you know if a loop without reservoir can work, weather there are max 1inch think 120mm/140mm radiators and what would be the minimum flow of a pump if it has to cool around 100W?
Thanks for reading, looking forward for ideas.
Edited by dragosmp - 8/21/08 at 8:15am
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