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I also built the case! Some pictures:
Although I'm not an experienced craftsman I had lots of fun building this case. I had a 2008 macbook white with no use (broken keyboard) which i now use as a home server. I removed the fan and replaced it with this passive cooler. It's all attached to a simple wooden frame which coincidentally fits perfectly on the 120mm fan. The blue leds give it a nice touch, although I'll probably get a fan with white leds. All ports are heading top which means the case is completely closed, there's no opening for the ports. There's only the power cables (two cables - had to get a separate one for the fan because the mainboard does not have a 12V fan connector, only 5V) going inside the case.
The case stays really cool, CPU is 20°C in idle. I suppose this is not surprising for notebook hardware, but it means the fan can run really slowly and it'll still be cool.
Things I want to improve:
- build a wifi antenna (like this one: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bi-Quad-WiFi-Antenna/)
- get a fan with white LEDs and maybe even less noise in this mounting position (apparently horizontal and blowing upwards increases fan noise)
- get an on-off switch. At the moment i have to manually connect two contacts on the mainboard to turn it on - not too bad since it's an always-on server anyway
- maybe spray paint the case again since i did a pretty bad job
Hope you like it!
Although I'm not an experienced craftsman I had lots of fun building this case. I had a 2008 macbook white with no use (broken keyboard) which i now use as a home server. I removed the fan and replaced it with this passive cooler. It's all attached to a simple wooden frame which coincidentally fits perfectly on the 120mm fan. The blue leds give it a nice touch, although I'll probably get a fan with white leds. All ports are heading top which means the case is completely closed, there's no opening for the ports. There's only the power cables (two cables - had to get a separate one for the fan because the mainboard does not have a 12V fan connector, only 5V) going inside the case.
The case stays really cool, CPU is 20°C in idle. I suppose this is not surprising for notebook hardware, but it means the fan can run really slowly and it'll still be cool.
Things I want to improve:
- build a wifi antenna (like this one: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bi-Quad-WiFi-Antenna/)
- get a fan with white LEDs and maybe even less noise in this mounting position (apparently horizontal and blowing upwards increases fan noise)
- get an on-off switch. At the moment i have to manually connect two contacts on the mainboard to turn it on - not too bad since it's an always-on server anyway
- maybe spray paint the case again since i did a pretty bad job
Hope you like it!
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