Overclockers.com - "Cooling the Shuttle XPC (The Toaster)"

[Midknyte]

Here's a practical mod for you Shuttle XPC owners out there:

http://www.overclockers.com/articles984/

[ATI RADEON 8500]

Only few Celius gain ain't worth all that hassle.:rolleyes:

[Midknyte]

How's this then?:

Watercooled Athlon64 Shuttle mmm sexy
http://forums.sfftech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=46&threadid=49705&FTVAR_MSGDBTABLE=

[Vampiel]

A Dremel, the tool of modders. That's pretty nice! I like the mini-pc's I was thinking about getting one. Ive cut a few holes in the side of a few computers with a dremel, it's pretty easy but you go through those little blades pretty quick.

[Vampiel]

Just one question on that mod though... did you see were his copper tubes are in the back of the computer. Does he not get condensation in those? Does it dissapate b/c of the heat? Thats kind of risky, isnt it?

[Midknyte]

I wouldn't think that it would get cold enough to cause condensation. it also depends on the dew point in your area. if it's really humid, maybe. Still it looks pretty spiffy.

A lot of my friends have shuttles and they love 'em. not too sure about any other brand. I know falcon northwest is selling FIC Ice cubes as "Fragboxes".

http://www.fica.com/site/html/products/pc/detail.asp?cat_id=240000183&C_ID=240000816

http://www.falcon-nw.com/fragbox.asp

[Vampiel]

I like the second link, those are pretty nice, but I would prob. buy and MSI barebones, unless gigabyte has a barebones mini-pc (I havent seen one yet) or maybe an Asus, and build the rest of it.

I dont know about those pipes in the back like that, I guess you take somewhat of a risk using watercooling no matter what. I think I could figure out a way to cool it w/o having to resort to that. I just dont like the idea of water running inside my computer. Although there is this

http://jchemed.chem.wisc.edu/JCESoft/CCA/CCA1/R1MAIN/CD1R3230.HTM

Distilled water, but if you add things into the water to make it cooler of course it would then be conductive. I heard that things will grow in your system if you dont put benzene in the water.

Look at scholzie post here... im not sure if he's right about the distilled water, b/c everywere I looked on college chemistry web sites, they said that distilled water is in fact non-conductive (or is it de-ionized water, sheesh I dunno). Even if it wasnt, it would prob. evaporate before it would do any damage if its a small leak.

http://www.pimpedoutcases.net/forums/showthread.php?t=584

Plus their is also this stuff, I wonder if that would be useful, I wouldnt mind going to watercooling as long as I knew I was safe.

http://swelec.koreasme.com/viewproduct_18_e.html

[Vampiel]

OK after doing some more research apparently this "de-ionized water" is much better to use but harder to find, and more expensive.

[Midknyte]

deionized would be better (no H+ or OH- ions, but you knew that). see if you can get some deionized water from a college lab or school. say it's for an experiment or something. hehe it's not that hard to find. I used it in college all the time.

I'm content with my air cooling right now, but I know some pretty hardcore water guys too. whatevers. I think i'm just too lazy to have to maintain the water level. :p

The Asus mini pcs aren't that great. My friend's shop sells asus and shuttle mini pcs, but they sell at least 5 to 1 shuttles to asus.

[Vampiel]

Originally posted by Midknyte
My friend's shop sells asus and shuttle mini pcs, but they sell at least 5 to 1 shuttles to asus.

I figured that, I have yet to get in the Asus mini-pc's, but I knew the shuttle's were better anyways, although the MSI looks like a pretty good contender. I wish giga-byte would come out with one, im a giga-byte fan before any other mb. (though I do use asus in my cheaper computers b/c of the cheap nforce boards they offer with video)

[scottluebke2003]

GIGABYTE! Good man

[causticVapor]

Over at Sudhian...prescott in an SFF...PSU @ 90 and BOOM! :r

Toaster? Burnt bread...

[Midknyte]

http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=494

They were only using the 220W PSU, though. Maybe the 250 SilenX PSU would have been able to handle it? :confused:

[ATI RADEON 8500]

Originally posted by Midknyte
http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=494

They were only using the 220W PSU, though. Maybe the 250 SilenX PSU would have been able to handle it? :confused:



:eek: :eek: :eek: Nice article. But no pic of the blown up cpu = :mad:

[Midknyte]

This is a pretty old article, but I still like watching the videos:
http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/01q3/010917/index.html

[aghastpumpkin]

Hi
I own a shuttle sk41, and i think its totally pointless trying to get it cooler.
Why? Well for a start, using smartfan, the fan inside will automatically speed up under extreme heat.
Also, I have felt the components inside the machine after six hours of lan gaming, and they are only warm, not really hot.
You cant really customise shuttles, they arent the type of pc you should alter, as they are very specific in their build and layout.
Ive never had any problems with heat, and my cpu never goes above 46*C.
However, I have considered fitting a fan from a psu unit into my spare floppy bay (I have no need for a floppy drive) which will dissapate most of the heat around the hdd and dvd-rom.
All you need to do is find an old floppy drive. Remove all of the electrics and covers until you are left with its chassis, which can still be screwed into the drive bay. You may need to cut the front end off to stop interference with the front bay panels. Drill holes for the fan, screw the fan in and voilá, you have an extra fan. Because the psu fans on shuttle psus are so small, you should be able to fit it in properly. You then simply cut out a hole where the fan fits on the floppy chassis, and connect it to a fan plug on the mainboard.
I know a friend wh has done this, and the case temp was reduced by about 5*C.
Please do look this up before doing it, I am not entirely sure myself, it is just an idea.:)