j.c.f.'s Overclocked Athlon
Project
The foam not only holds the copper shims in place on
top of the cache ships but serves to displace as much air out of there as possible -- like
we'll be getting to below ambient air temperature and therefore facing the condensation
problems, not likely with a greater than 50W heat source in there. That piece of foam
actually got sculpted quite a bit more than that as there are several capacitors on the
SECC that have to have hollows made for them and the overclocking jig connector also
needed some foam removed. Also shown are the aluminum shims in place filling in the
indentations on the other side of the original hot plate (now becoming part of the cold
plate).
Next we bolt the two plates together, plenty of
thermal goop (although not thick you'll note). Note that the other side of that cold plate
has the extremely counter sunk receptacles for the CPU bolts, the TECs will be mating with
the other face of that and you sure don't want a little steel bolt poking up in there,
it'd shatter the TEC:
There are going to be two sets of nuts here, one set to
hold the plates together and then a second set later to put tension on the springs holding
the CPU to the cold plate. Here's the first set in place with a good
dose of locktight, if those loosen up the whole rig has to be disassembled:
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