Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC

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wasserware
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Fanless Phenom II X3 720BE Radeon 5670 Silent Blu-ray HTPC

Post by wasserware » Sun Jul 04, 2010 9:03 am

This might look like a bunch of scattered pieces of metal but it is actuall the fanless heatpipe cooler for the CPU:
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Silverstone Nightjar 300W fanless PSU:
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Taming the Cables One by One:
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1TB Seagate 7200.12 HDD in SilenceBox which completely removes all noise and clicking sound:
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Everything in Place with Passive Radeon 5670:
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Heatpipe CPU cooler transports heat from the Phenom II X3 720 to the side of the case:
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It seems the flimsy ASUS aluminum heatsink ok the 5670 cant keep the card cool enough so I took it out and swapped it with a Zalman VF-1000 Copper cooler with the fan removed. Now the card idles at 70 degrees and shoots up to about 90C after a few hours of furmark:

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Post by frostedflakes » Sun Jul 04, 2010 10:01 am

Very nice. What case is that? Also, what are temps like on the CPU?
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Post by frenchie » Sun Jul 04, 2010 12:13 pm

Nice !
Any reason for the motherboard change between the pictures ?
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Post by wasserware » Sun Jul 04, 2010 1:03 pm

The case is a Mcubed HFX Classic:

The reason why the motherboard is swapped is because the MSI has better cooling and chipset.

VFD in Place:
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Final Build in the living Room:
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Cooling Fins on the side of the case:
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wasserware
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Post by wasserware » Sun Jul 04, 2010 6:59 pm

frostedflakes wrote:Very nice. What case is that? Also, what are temps like on the CPU?
The CPU idles around 45C and during load it goes up to 55ish.
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NeelyCam
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Post by NeelyCam » Sat Jul 17, 2010 10:04 am

Purty. The case looks awesome. How much was the CPU heatpipe cooler?
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Hangfire
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Post by Hangfire » Mon Jul 19, 2010 6:57 pm

A nice clean build, inside and out.

The SilenceBox looks interesting, but I'm wondering what the HDD temps are?

-HF
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wasserware
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Post by wasserware » Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:39 pm

NeelyCam wrote:Purty. The case looks awesome. How much was the CPU heatpipe cooler?
I bought the case around $350 when the case was available through a canadian distributor.
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Post by wasserware » Sun Jan 09, 2011 12:41 pm

frenchie wrote:Nice !
Any reason for the motherboard change between the pictures ?
The MSI motherboard has better chipset cooling than the gigabyte..
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