Project MiniMe - Smallest (ever?) Watercooled mITX PC

[CENTER][SIZE="5"]Intro[/SIZE]

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Hi to everyone at Tom's forums! My first time here! I thought i might run this scratch build on here, see what response i get! My main home is overclock.net so the first few updates are not really new! This is my second scratch build. My first was called Bloo Box, an acrylic mid tower case:





You can find a worklog with big pictures and a video here: http://www.overclock.net/case-mod- [...] 4-6-a.html

Well I'm back again with another mod! I've caught the bug :wheee:

This time I am going small! My inspiration came from seeing someone on OCN make a tiny mITX case with a Zotac mITX MoBo. It looked so awesome I wanted one! So I researched hardware and found you could get really nice mITX socket 775 motherboards for not a huge amount of money, including a PCI-E x16 slot. With that in mind, I came onto the problem of cooling. To do any substantial cooling would make the case quite large. The low profile coolers normally do not give amazing temperatures, and making the case fit one of the giant HFS's would remove the point of the small case. It was then i saw an all-in-one liquid cooling system from SwifTech. And the idea clicked!

Build the world's smallest watercooled computer!



[CENTER][SIZE="5"]Initial Components[/SIZE][/CENTER]

PLEASE NOTE: These components have now changed! See the 4th update for a new components list!

[SIZE="4"]Watercooling[/SIZE]
Swiftech 120mm Radiator with Reservoir : MCR120-QP-RES
Laing DDC-1T Watercooling Pump
Swiftech Apogee GTZ CPU Block
3/8 ID 5/8 OD High Flex UV Clear/Blue x2
Nylon Hose Clamp for 3/8" Tubing - Black x6
XSPC HelixCoils 5/8 16mm OD x2
Feser One Anti Corrosion Liquid UV Purple 1ltr
Acutake ACU-Fan120 (White Wing)
ACUTAKE ACU-FAN80 PRO (White Wing Fan Professional)

[SIZE="4"]Other[/SIZE]
Zotac GeForce 9300-ITX WiFi Socket 775
Intel Pentium Dual Core E5200 2.5GHz
Western Digital 320GB 2.5" Laptop Hard Drive SATAII
Samsung SN-S082H Notebook 8x DVD±RW
12V 150W PicoPSU-150-XT
Asus Xonar DX 7.1 PCI-Express Soundcard




[CENTER][SIZE="5"]Sponsors[/SIZE][/CENTER]

I am delighted to introduct my first sponsor, Watercooled-PCs.co.uk! They will be sponsoring me with my watercooling equipment.



Their website can be found here: http://www.watercooled-pcs.co.uk




Ebuyer are also sponsoring me with a motherboard, processor and graphics card! Massive thanks to Charlie in marketing for her support

[CENTER][SIZE="5"]Case Plans[/SIZE][/CENTER]

I am planning for the case to be a maximum of 20x20x20cm + 120mm radiator on the back. I think I can get it smaller than this however. The case will be made out of a black anodized aluminium frame with smoked acrylic filling the holes for the sides and top, and the front and back will be made out of black aluminium mesh. I am going for a blue and purple colour scheme inside (wiring, coolant, tubing etc). The metal will be cut on the CNC router at my school (it's tiny, about 30x30cm cutting area!). The plastic will be laser cut also at my school, and sponsor logos will be laser etched on during this process. I also plan to etch the logo 'MiniMe' onto the front of the case on the aluminium frame.





So yeh! That is the basic outline. It won't get properly under way until September, but during the summer I will get all the CAD work done so when i come back i can get the materials ordered and begin! Thanks for reading


[CENTER][SIZE="5"]Log[/SIZE][/CENTER]
#1 - First Sketchups
#2 - Second Sketchups
#3 - Third Sketchups - everything inside the cube!
#4 - Price List
#5 - Package arrives!
#6 - Final sketchup done. PRECISELY to scale. Ready to begin!

Reserved #2

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