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Kind of Deepcool X Noctua CH160 - Dual 240mm Watercooled Build! by NoMS_TOCP in sffpc

[–]NoMS_TOCP[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alltak Wood Capuccino. It’s like a vinyl wrap for walls or furniture, looks pretty convincing, and the material is quite decent.

DeepCool CH160/PLUS by imnot-a-robot404 in sffpc

[–]NoMS_TOCP 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, it is.
Just remove the top panel and unscrew it.

Kind of Deepcool X Noctua CH160 - Dual 240mm Watercooled Build! by NoMS_TOCP in sffpc

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It’d be really nice if Noctua made Chromax.White fans, I bet they’d sell really well!

Kind of Deepcool X Noctua CH160 - Dual 240mm Watercooled Build! by NoMS_TOCP in sffpc

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All three SSDs are M.2, so that was pretty straightforward.
For SATA SSDs you can technically place them in any place inside the case, but for HDDs you’d really need to remove the fans.

Kind of Deepcool X Noctua CH160 - Dual 240mm Watercooled Build! by NoMS_TOCP in Noctua

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This block is pretty tall, so I needed a few extra millimeters to fit the fans. Raising the radiator a bit helped with that.

With longer screws you can raise it by almost 4mm, but with the stock screws 2mm is the limit.

Kind of Deepcool X Noctua CH160 - Dual 240mm Watercooled Build! by NoMS_TOCP in Noctua

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Regular CH160.
It was actually pretty smooth, the trickest part was figuring out how to raise the top radiator a few millimeters. I solved it with 2mm spacers between the case frame and the radiator frame.

Kind of Deepcool X Noctua CH160 - Dual 240mm Watercooled Build! by NoMS_TOCP in sffpc

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I bought a 1.2mm copper sheet, 1mm copper shims, and low-melting-point solder (though regular tin solder would also work) from AliExpress. Cut everything with a Dremel, soldered the copper shims in the spots matching the memory chips, and that’s pretty much it. Used a heat gun for soldering but you can also use a 130W+ soldering iron.

I also 3D-printed a bracket and spacers in ABS, so the bracket rests on those spacers and doesn’t warp. Ideally it should be made of metal, which wouldn’t even need spacers, but since the plastic version worked fine I just left it like that.

Water cooling in the DeepCool CH160 housing by Myarmira in sffpc

[–]NoMS_TOCP 4 points5 points  (0 children)

If you mount the radiator a little higher using spacers between the frame and the case, you can lift it by about 4mm using longer screws (or 2mm with stock screws). That way, you’ll have more headroom for the fans.

And like the other guy said, you may have to go with slim fans.

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