Yet Another "Let's Use Car Parts To Modify PCs" Thread

[VashTheStampede]

Tonight, it's air cooling. Was walking around the shop just before closing, and picked up some big bore muffler tips, the 3"-4" outlet variety. You can pick them up for under $10. Then looked at some flexible tail pipes, about 1 foot long, completely flexible and shapable. Now combine the two, you have ducted cooling, easier to modify than PVC piping.

What I was thinking was, to sand the sides of a 120mm or 92mm fan and slide it in the big bore muffler tip. Then mount the tip either through the top or back of your case, look pretty tight to have chrome tips coming out the top or back of your case.

So what you guys think?

~RT~

[*JEREMY*]

i was looking at the exact same thing in autozone the other night,they had some cool chrome tips. You start thinking ,hmmm how could i put this baby on my rig.Im sure you could work something out with that and the flexpipe.
On the cooling subject,something that caught my eye also was antisieze,you know the stuff you put on bolts to keep them from locking up,anyways it says its a copper compound and the ingredients were aluminum and copper and some other stuff.I wonder how this stuff would work in place of thermal grease.I am tempted to try it.

[VashTheStampede]

You know I forgot completely about mounting, oh well, two minutes of thinking and I came up with this. The tip already has 4 bolts at the inlet end, so make a custom built bracket for the inlet to sit on. The picture shows it better.

I mean, what would make your computer look and actually run cooler, just adding plain old Panaflo 120mm fans through a nasty looking blowhole, or have dual 4" chrome tips coming out the back of your system, with the 120mm fans nicely tucked away inside them?

Antiseize... never used it in the shop before, we just use plain old WD-40 to keep from striping the lugnuts/bolts. As for AS2/thermal grease replacement, it may work. Some people have talked about mixing diamond dust in with AS2, but I don't think anyone has actually done it. Mind you diamonds are one of the best heat conductors, expensive as hell though.

~RT~

[Thelemac]

Originally posted by MaX PowerZ
On the cooling subject,something that caught my eye also was antisieze,you know the stuff you put on bolts to keep them from locking up,anyways it says its a copper compound and the ingredients were aluminum and copper and some other stuff.I wonder how this stuff would work in place of thermal grease.I am tempted to try it.

I don't really think it would be that much better than ASII...which is something like 99.9% micronized silver, and it designed to be resitive instead of conductive towards electricity.