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- Nov 6, 2019
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- Motherboard
- Optiplex 9020 MT
- CPU
- i7-4790K
- Graphics
- RX 580
- Mac
- Mobile Phone
Hi Everyone,
Just wanted to share some pictures of my re-casing experience, moving my optiplex 9020MT to a cooler master silencio S400 MATX case using the harbin repairs power and audio/usb2 adapters. I have also installed a 4790K and cooler master hyper 212 RGB Black air cooler.
The case. The CM s400 is a MATX case that i liked for the looks and quiet design. I put 2 140mm be quiet silent wings 3 pwm fans in the front and left one of the 120mm silencio fans (that came with the case) in the back as an exhaust, connected via a noctua NA-FC1 fan controller. The board fit no worries but the harbin audio/usb2 adapter was a very tight fit at the bottom, however it does fit without touching the psu shroud...just! The power adapter was a bit of an issue as a corner of the optical drive bracket came very close and made it hard to insert the power button led leads from the case. I ended up taking the bracket out and bending down the corner slightly with plyers to give better clearance. I also added a couple of pads to the bracket that lifted the optical drive up slightly so it didn't rest on the top of the adapter. If you didn't want an optical drive, then this wouldn't be an issue. First pic also shows the thermal sensor. Other than that the optiplex fits in the s400 very well.
The hyper 212 Air cooler. I had previously asked on here if it was possible to fit a Cooler Master hyper 212X air cooler to the optiplex board...it is not! I was able to look at the mounting system for the hyper 212X (which is the same as the older evo) and the 'long nuts' on those older coolers are shaped like standoffs with the threaded end designed to pass through the motherboard and screw into nuts placed on the back. The thread used is 6-32 UNC (think a standard thumb screw) and wouldn't fit through the threading hole in the optiplex backplate which is standard M3 thread (like a ssd mounting screw). Enter the new CM hyper 212 RGB Black edition (and I assume non rgb black edition) that come with a newer/revised mounting system. Instead of coming with long nuts shaped like standoffs, the long nuts (black hexagonal things in pic3) are female at both ends and most importantly, threaded all the way through in standard M3 thread. On a normal board, you use the screws with the square end and the black backplate shown below to secure the long nuts at the front. Instead I used a standard M3 12mm bolt and 3 washers (2 metal,1 fibre) that i screwed through the standard optiplex backplate to take the place of the square end bolt (If you got 10mm M3 bolts, you could use less washers but i already had the 12mm ones). After that, the I screwed in the long nuts and cooler fit as normal without issues.
Do I need a 120mm tower cooler in this set up...probably not lol but it looks cool and considering I have upgraded my 4770 to a i7 4790K (couldn't help myself), it can't hurt!
I could probably fit a bigger graphics card in there now.....hmmm
Just wanted to share some pictures of my re-casing experience, moving my optiplex 9020MT to a cooler master silencio S400 MATX case using the harbin repairs power and audio/usb2 adapters. I have also installed a 4790K and cooler master hyper 212 RGB Black air cooler.
The case. The CM s400 is a MATX case that i liked for the looks and quiet design. I put 2 140mm be quiet silent wings 3 pwm fans in the front and left one of the 120mm silencio fans (that came with the case) in the back as an exhaust, connected via a noctua NA-FC1 fan controller. The board fit no worries but the harbin audio/usb2 adapter was a very tight fit at the bottom, however it does fit without touching the psu shroud...just! The power adapter was a bit of an issue as a corner of the optical drive bracket came very close and made it hard to insert the power button led leads from the case. I ended up taking the bracket out and bending down the corner slightly with plyers to give better clearance. I also added a couple of pads to the bracket that lifted the optical drive up slightly so it didn't rest on the top of the adapter. If you didn't want an optical drive, then this wouldn't be an issue. First pic also shows the thermal sensor. Other than that the optiplex fits in the s400 very well.
The hyper 212 Air cooler. I had previously asked on here if it was possible to fit a Cooler Master hyper 212X air cooler to the optiplex board...it is not! I was able to look at the mounting system for the hyper 212X (which is the same as the older evo) and the 'long nuts' on those older coolers are shaped like standoffs with the threaded end designed to pass through the motherboard and screw into nuts placed on the back. The thread used is 6-32 UNC (think a standard thumb screw) and wouldn't fit through the threading hole in the optiplex backplate which is standard M3 thread (like a ssd mounting screw). Enter the new CM hyper 212 RGB Black edition (and I assume non rgb black edition) that come with a newer/revised mounting system. Instead of coming with long nuts shaped like standoffs, the long nuts (black hexagonal things in pic3) are female at both ends and most importantly, threaded all the way through in standard M3 thread. On a normal board, you use the screws with the square end and the black backplate shown below to secure the long nuts at the front. Instead I used a standard M3 12mm bolt and 3 washers (2 metal,1 fibre) that i screwed through the standard optiplex backplate to take the place of the square end bolt (If you got 10mm M3 bolts, you could use less washers but i already had the 12mm ones). After that, the I screwed in the long nuts and cooler fit as normal without issues.
Do I need a 120mm tower cooler in this set up...probably not lol but it looks cool and considering I have upgraded my 4770 to a i7 4790K (couldn't help myself), it can't hurt!
I could probably fit a bigger graphics card in there now.....hmmm