Anyway, my idea kind of stems from the WC solution someone (IIRC someone from Russia) where he would de-solder the FETs and attach them to a WB. I considered that for a while but decided not to do a WC setup, the risk of a mica shim breaking and giving the top of my 2500+ die wall power (:shock:) was a bit... off-putting..
So I thought for a while, and thought, what if I which the WB for an air cooled alternative, some sort of HSF assembly that has a thick, large base (and should be cheap). The Arctic Cooling TC 2 seemed to fit the bill, with a 44x44mm base, that should provide ample room for the FETs.
I also didn't want to run the risk that I could fry my PSU by having two mica shims break, where one FET would be from the larger heatsink in my PSU and one from the smaller heatsink, so the safest thing to do would be to have two of them, one with all the larger heatsink's FETs and one with the smaller heatsink's FETs.
As of yet I haven't done anything but planning, but I feel that if I post this here other people can give their ideas (and any obvious bugs can be worked out) and then this may be actually done IRL.
(Who knows, this may be the thing that starts big companies redesigning their PSU's to be like this
)Some people her will also say that this won't do any good beacuse the FETs will still only get as much fresh air coming in, which is true, however the temperature of the FETs will be connected to a system with a much, much better *C/W value, meaning that they won't *need* as much airflow.
Also, for a standard 300W PSU with an efficiency of.. say.. 65% (just to be safe) and a load of.. 200 watts, that would mean roughly 70Watts distrubuted over 2 heasinks, and over a much larger area on the HSF's base, whcih means that the fans won't nessecerely be spinnign very quickly (of course if this is effective the AC HSF's can be replaced for some SLK-800's for instance, and with two L1a's at a suitable voltage)
Edit: Just for clarification:
- The 80mm fan will still be in the PSU, although at a low voltage
- The brown line in the image is a wooed (or other suitable material) barrier making this a 5.25" bay PSU duct
- There is approximatly 37mm of clearance on either side of the AC HSFs (roughly 80mm if it was pressed to one side) and roughly 15mm on the top and bottom which means that the rear fan *will* still get fresh air (and that there is more surface area in the intake than the area of the rear fan, which means it wont get all too strangled), especially if placed like this:
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Where the ///\\\ is the air filter, ---- air, xxx fan, and the oo and theh box are components inside the PSU
Comments and Crit would be needless to say, very appreciated.
