Re: Ratdude's main rig V5.0
You should get a crimping tool like Engineer PA-20 , some contacts ( male or female for the hdd connector) and some AWG18 or AWG20 cable and mod those power supply cables so that they won't block the airflow from the CPU.
For esthetics, you may want to turn the case fans by 90 or 180 degrees so that the wire would be hidden between the fan and the motherboard.
The crimping tool is always useful, and it's compatible with lots of series of connectors, you will use it for lots of other projects. I have the exact model here. There's also PA-09 which works with awg18 cables in power supplies but it's more "optimized" for smaller connectors and pins (has "holes" for smaller crimps)
A kind o McGuyver hack for the ram would be to buy some double sided adhesive tape and take some coke aluminum cans, strip them off their paint, cut strips the length of the ram and then make make fins on one end of the strip, fins that would be high enough to be in the airflow of that fan on the case.
Replace coke cans with copper foil or something more expensive if you want.
You could also put the case on thicker legs and cut a round hole in the bottom of the case somewhere in the area between the cpu coolers and the hdd cages, so that a fan would blow air from under the case and blow it towards the cpu heatsinks, and then the air would blow over the memory sticks.
Looking at a post way up in the thread, it seems you have some fan there mounted blowing air towards the raid controller but i don't see where it's getting air from and I doubt its usefullness. The card should stay cool on its own and with air coming from the vents in the back of the case.
You should get a crimping tool like Engineer PA-20 , some contacts ( male or female for the hdd connector) and some AWG18 or AWG20 cable and mod those power supply cables so that they won't block the airflow from the CPU.
For esthetics, you may want to turn the case fans by 90 or 180 degrees so that the wire would be hidden between the fan and the motherboard.
The crimping tool is always useful, and it's compatible with lots of series of connectors, you will use it for lots of other projects. I have the exact model here. There's also PA-09 which works with awg18 cables in power supplies but it's more "optimized" for smaller connectors and pins (has "holes" for smaller crimps)
A kind o McGuyver hack for the ram would be to buy some double sided adhesive tape and take some coke aluminum cans, strip them off their paint, cut strips the length of the ram and then make make fins on one end of the strip, fins that would be high enough to be in the airflow of that fan on the case.
Replace coke cans with copper foil or something more expensive if you want.
You could also put the case on thicker legs and cut a round hole in the bottom of the case somewhere in the area between the cpu coolers and the hdd cages, so that a fan would blow air from under the case and blow it towards the cpu heatsinks, and then the air would blow over the memory sticks.
Looking at a post way up in the thread, it seems you have some fan there mounted blowing air towards the raid controller but i don't see where it's getting air from and I doubt its usefullness. The card should stay cool on its own and with air coming from the vents in the back of the case.
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