Non-Mac Mini - fully watercooled!

[MacTester57]

Hi guys

Today, I would like to present you a Mod, which I've made about 10 years ago. Of course, it's not able to run OS X, but I think, it could give you some inspiration for your customac minis!

Specs:
-Shuttle Barebone SB61G2
-Pentium 4 3.0GHz
-2GB RAM
-Radeon 9600XT
-Hauppauge TV card
-300GB SATA HDD
-DVD-burner
-Card reader
-Vista Ultimate... :

Mods:
-Watercooling for CPU, GPU, Chipset. All coolers except of the CPU cooler are self made.
-Milled, blue illuminated expansion tank.
-CNC-milled side window.
-CNC-milled front plate with two blue illuminated fans
-New USB mount on the bottom
-Feets with blue LED's inside

Today, I took it out of the museum, cleaned the expansion tank and made a test-run. Everything works well. Even after 10 years, but of course it's no rocket anymore.


Some old photos:


Edit, some more pics:


Edit, video:

 

[eelhead]

Nice nice nice!!
Great job there with the water cooling!

Did you mill out all the pieces yourself?

 

[MacTester57]

Nice nice nice!!
Great job there with the water cooling!

Did you mill out all the pieces yourself?

Thank you!

Yes, at my former workplace, I had access to an entire machine park, including a cnc milling machine.

I've designed the whole mods on CAD.

 

[neilhart]

Very nice. I really enjoy seeing work like this... re-engineering at its best. My work from ten years ago does not measure up to this.

Thank you for sharing.
neil

 

[MacTester57]

Very nice. I really enjoy seeing work like this... re-engineering at its best. My work from ten years ago does not measure up to this.

Thank you for sharing.
neil

Neil,

Thank you for your kind words.

I had the luck, to have access to the right tools. So it's easy to make such a mod.

I've put some additional pics in my first post.

 

[minihack]

Really like it. Very nice mod to the Shuttle case.

 

[MacTester57]

Really like it. Very nice mod to the Shuttle case.

Minihack, thank you.

I think, it's more or less the only Shuttle mod, which has all water cooling components inside and is still not reduced with drive bays and connectors.

 

[Solidww]

 

[awraynor]

wow, still looks great after all these years.

 

[MacTester57]

I've added a new video to post #1

MacTester