Case Mod - In Progress Il•lu•sion - Worlds Smallest Watercooled Pico Itx, Watercooled Shuttle & LCD Screen!

Wow, the heat sink does look amazing.

 

Nice one, tell you what, just when you've finished the mod, I'll buy the drive and make everything a royal pain in the arse for you.

 

good work on the heatsink!

 

I like to think that when its done it'll look good!

Haha the hard drive sold!
so nurrr nurrr!

Thank you matey!

 

Another small update!


More sleeving.. this time for the hard drive!


Steel plate made up to hide the hard drive and support the motherboard correctly.
Its slightly wider to allow some cables to be hidden from view.
Currently only in grey primer to prevent rusting.


The start of the power supply....
13 strips cut to 11 cm's



One wired, soldered and sleeved power supply.
I had to sleeve the wires and push the sleeving down so i could solder them!
took a total of 2 hours and burnt myself 3 times


Power supply in place - all cables reach with ease
Notice the extra 4 cables coming away from the power supply?
the yellow and black will be used to power the pump itself but i am waiting on a male p4 4 pin connector in the post.
The other black and white connector is the power supply feed.

Both of these will be sleeved and cables made to length as soon as i know how long they need to be


The cables do touch the radiator which lifts ever so slightly... this will be no issue but i will need to add another bracket to the top right hand corner of the radiator to contain the cables. ​

 

Excellent stuff! This is the sort of water cooling and modding I really love...

 

+1 - great job, love the intricacy of the work, looking forward to seeing everything progress

 

My lunchtime wasn't very much fun today but i did manage to do a little more!
Its these little tedious jobs which will make this project a success though....

in order to mount the 'new' heatsink i needed to make a way of holding it against the motherboard and then mounting the motherboard to the metal plate i made previously...

so....



Added some m3 threaded screws to the mix... these screw into the threads in the heatsink.







Made some 4mm brass spacers from some brass tubing.
Filed this down to size and mounted accordingly


This was all held in place by an m3 nut the other side




there is one corner of the motherboard which the heatsink doesn't attach to. For this corner i will need to add in a 6mm spacer. For the moment though... 3 m3 nuts will do

I have on order some m3 hexagonal spacers which are 10mm long. These are threaded to take a m3 screw so i plan to jbweld these to the plate... and paint them black at the same time as the plate.
​

 

Oh, yeah! That looks much better. You scared the heck out of me earlier.

 

Nice one!

 

such a cool build man

 

Its just taking so long

Its not going to be the perfect way to do it.. obviously a copper cut base and then brazing them together would be the right way but i simply don't have the tools and having already spent a massive amount on everything i doubt i have the money either!

The heatsink wont get overly hot in any case i suppose its more for the novelty!

 

I've been busy working on other things that haven't had much to do with modding, so I've not made any posts in the worklog side of this forum for quite a while. That said, this project has definitely caught my attention. As a huge fan of Shuttles, PicoITX's, and computers in computers, I absolutely love what you are doing here. It's no small undertaking when it comes to making everything fit, but it looks like you've got a solid plan. I'll be watching...

 

sounds like a worklog we need over @ LOSIAS!

Always wanted to do a dual board rig.. inspiration!

 

Okay guys - Another Update....
We're getting closer!


Needed to mount the hard drive - so pulled apart a laptop to steal the caddy!


The bracket didnt fit nicely in my plans...


So off with its head!!!!


It was then epoxied to the bracket made previously!


Slight flap made to hide some of the cables


That missing spacer made


Nut added to the radiator to support top corner



Test fit to see if its still likely to fit.... though.. looking tight now!!

on to the heatsink

Mixture of J-B Weld and thermal paste


First Stage


Second stage of filling!


Added board to chassis plate and added JBWeld




Added the nuts.. nice and dry!




Having filed them down... we lost one



All nicely rounded

Back to the heatsink...


3rd filling


Mmmmmm looks nice!


num num


Smooooth!


4th stage!


Repaired that pesky stand off...


Added some smaller heatsinks as well..

And its all currently drying!
Roll on the weekend where all this will be filed down once more and we can see some paint going on!!​

 

Nice. Good job mate.

 

Sorry lads.. almost missed you there!!

I'm hoping i'm progressing with it quick enough.. i find myself getting tingly feelings as i get closer but dont want to cut any corners..
I'll keep working at it!

Got the link and i might post it over
By all means link it

 

I've been kicking around a 2-in-1 sort of build for a while now. What I had in mind was ATX & Mini-ITX, though. This is pure madness!

Subbing this - nice work!

 

great work so far mate

 

good job, I'm amazed how much you're cramming in such a small space.