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Originally posted by TonyM
tigeroats i read your article about youre fridge converison thing, i think i can pull off something similar to what you did. anyway the only thing that scares me is the insulation part do you by chance have any links that go more indepth about insulating the proc and surrounding area?
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Here's how I did it and have had no problems. Bear in mind that I switch off the cooling when my system is not in use. The following method will not protect to -20C.
Get 2 mouse mats with the black neoprene backing. Make a mat that goes over the socket and covers the mobo for about 10mm around the socket. Make panels for each side of the water block so that the two sides are aproximately 4mm longer than the side of the w/b. Glue these to the w/block. The top and the bottom will now fit into the overlap from the sides. Make a cover for the top that overlaps the sides and glue this on. Repeat the procedure for the second layer except this time make the top and the bottom longer than the sides so when they are glued on they overlap the joints beneath them. Don't forget to remove the plastic layer on the neoprene. Wrap the whole lot in electrical insulation tape.
Take some non-conductive twin pack epoxy and cover the tails of the socket (on the back of the mobo) with a layer that is thick enough so that the metal tails are all covered and no longer visible. Seal the edges of the inside of the socket with the same epoxy so that all the joints with the mobo are covered. I covered all the components as well. Make sure you don't get any on the thermistor or the socket surface. Make a neoprene block to fit into the socket and make in slit in the centre for the thermistor to come through. Insert this so that the thermistor slides through the slit and lies on top.
The w/b can be mounted like this. Now the external layer is made once the the w/b is clamped down. In my case the clamp forms a lip over the w/b. Take pipe insulation for 1/2" pipe that you can get from any hadware supplier. You are going to need this for insulating all the pipes anyway. Measure the total length around your insulated w/b and cut a section of pipe insulation a 1/4 of this length. Cut the insulation vertically into 1/4's so that viewing from the end it is wedged shaped. These sections will be used as the outer layer. Take some of the pipe insulation and make small wedges that can be pushed into the gap between the w/b and the socket. Go all the way around the w/b pushing the wedges in carefully.
Now take the 1/4 sections described above and wedge them into the space between the clamp and the mobo. make sections that fit neatly into the corners. If you need to you may have to wrap with insulation tape.
Make some mouse mat neoprene layers to go on top of the clamp which go on after clamping has been completed.
That's it.