NH-D15 doesn't fit in a regular O11-D? No problem.
Posted Mar 19, 2023, 4:06 PM UTC
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The fact that I stood watching the picture for like a minute until I actually read your comment and saw what you did, is a statement to how unnoticeable your mod is! Congrats
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Top tier mod there!
I also would never have considered that a NH-D15 wouldn't fit in an O11D. Just wouldn't occur to me.
Great work!
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Without the heat pipes or fan, the outermost fin has like 2-3mm space to the glass, but the fan and pipes add like 10mm to the height. It's so close, and 15mm was just perfect extra space to keep the glass away from the pipes and fan.
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What do you have going into your bottom fans? lol Ive never seen whatever you used before.
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I like to attach all my fans with M4 machine screws. They pass nicely through the holes, and I can use wing nuts or regular hex nuts to keep them in place.
No fiddling with the rubber things, or screwing into the fan frame with the self tapping ones.
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Damn, I might actually steal that idea from you. Its got a cool industrial look.
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Looks like it's just bolts with wing nuts. I use M5 bolts on my fans. But instead of using nuts I tap threads into the fan chassis.
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You should paint the two glass panels black. defenetly.
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and turn off the lights in the case. yes.
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My old AIO's pump broke, so I went with an always reliable air cooler, but forgot about the measurements of the case.
Did a bit of a quick and dirty offset frame out of 15x15mm wood, drew and printed some plastic inserts, put some thread inserts into the plastic parts, and hung it on the case with M4 screws. It's not the best when it comes to quality, but at least it works and looks kinda nice from afar.
Edit, about the lighting. It's a strip of obnoxiously bright white LEDs (SignComplex SC-IE3-W), soldered into a wire and a switch that gets power from a 12mm barrel jack to SATA adapter. Since it's all 12VDC I didn't need anything else.
Get a decent white lacquer on that wood and it'll disappear unless you're really looking for it.
I'm using the stock AMD cooler(wraith or whatever so it's not terrible), largely due to my case being a smidge small and I didn't want to risk it.
I never thought to just make stand-offs for the panel(glass) if I run into issues.
Brilliant.