When I think of something hibernating, I think of a warm toasty sleeper. Thats what I'm working on here. Its a 2000w space heater, looks relatively old but in pretty good nick. The back is just asking for a hole to be cut for an IO shield and GPU bracket. Flipping it over I got a lot of screws to go. Heater element and front guard (more screws) Guts being removed Importantly the measurements (340 x 190 x 100 mm's) that's a good size at just under 6.5L I might need to move the front grill forward to get a board in, something like this Here she is with a helper to remind you what she looks like
Made some progress so here are some more shots: Everything laid out: Another angle: Current Specs I5-9500T GTX 1650 PIO motherboard (power via 240W laptop charger in rear IO) 1TB Crucial SSD 32gb of DDR4 Pair of Nocuta 92mm Fans (Slightly mangled from previous modding) Printed a new IO backplate before breaking my printer - Eeek Doesn't she look nice! Testing some WC components
Looking good there @Goatee, cheeky little PIO action! Even better, It'll be blowing 'hot' air out of the front as per the original design
I have some server based 40mm fans that I could rig up to the rad and connect to one of the original switches to disable the PWM signal enabling them to go to 11 (which is deafening). I have so many options.
I'm curious how this 40mm rad turns out. I contemplated even using those rads in my build, but TDP of parts I have is way higher than yours. I dropped the idea, since my thinking was if I was to use tiny fans (which kinda defeats purpose of quiet operation with water cooling), I could accomplish the same with air cooling at fraction of the cost.
