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Extra Gadget: the little sister
12/20/2023 at 21:02 • 0 commentsSince my overall plan was to create a multi-site private cloud and backup system, I needed a second option for the other side. Also here zero noise was mandatory so I decided to go with a passive ZimbaBoard setup
Here the components and th e full assembly which was quite straight forward with teh 3D printed SDD mount.
Component Selection ~costs(12/23) Main-PC ZimbaBoard 832 w/ dual SSD cable ~200€ Storage Main SSD: Crucial P3 500GB M.2 PCIe Gen3 NVMe
PCIe2SSD adapter: Sabrent M.2 SSD NVMe PCIe Adapter
Storage SSD: 2x Samsung 870 QVO 4TB35€
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360€Housing from thingiverse, ordered at JLCPCB <10€ Total: 620€ -
Finising the build
12/20/2023 at 20:44 • 0 commentsFinally I closed the housing and .. the NAS booted successfully (I was a bit affraid of damageing the bare die CPU when mounting the cooler). The temperatures stay below 40° with full load and the maximum I reached was belwo 50° with full CPU load for >6hours.
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Mounting it all together
12/20/2023 at 20:38 • 0 commentsThen it was time to add thermal past again, and mount the copper block by pressing it with the alluminium bars to the CPU. I re-used the springs of teh original cooler block. I am quite happy with this design, since I could mount the CPU cooler and then start to mount the heat pipes. This was not as comfortable in my passive PC build.Then after experimenting with the position of the heat pipe connections to the alluminium cooler, I drilled threaded holes to mount the copper blocks to the cooler. To bend the pipes I re-used the 3D printed bending tool I used already for the passive PC build. Then I added thermal paste and fixed the heat pipes at the cooler block.
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Building the cooling block
12/20/2023 at 20:15 • 0 commentsI did not find any dimenions of the mainboard cooler mounting holes in the internet so I was wuite interessted how they axactly look like. So the next step was to dismantle the default cooler and removing the thermal paste. I did a small sketch how I planned to mount he cooper block to the bare die CPU and connect the heat pipes to the alluminium cooler.
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Assembly of the electronics and building the base housing
12/20/2023 at 19:41 • 0 commentsOf course the first thing what to do when new PC components arrive is to build them together (picture left, only with boot SSD) and check if it is running. And yes, it was running :-). Next I took the cooler andcopied the micro-itx holes to the alluminium cooler with a printed schematic.
As corners I used 20x20mm Bosch profiles with 10cm length with M6 threads. For mainboard I mounted on small 3mm distance bolts.