There is no shortage of imaginative ways to modify heat dissipation in the DIY hardware circle. Well-known technology UP master Major Hardware has brought a new cooling experiment,Create a spherical chassis side panel Superdome with 15 built-in fans, using extreme stacking materials to achieve an outrageous cooling effect.
Old players should be familiar with this UP master. Last month, he built the "Fanhattan Project", a custom-made dome cooling device that also houses 15 fans, which sparked heated discussions in the hardware circle at the time. The design inspiration for this Super Dome comes from user comments in the previous video.Some players left a message suggesting that instead of using the niche small-size fan, they could directly use the standard Noctua NF-A12x25 120mm fan to replace the original side panel of the chassis for heat dissipation modification.
Players who are familiar with the DIY circle know that this classic fan from Noctua costs US$40 per unit.15 Counting the fans, the material cost alone is nearly $600. Fortunately, Noctua officially sponsored all the fans needed for the project, and also provided 3D printing consumables with matching colors, which saved the UP owner a lot of money.
The final super dome has a very particular structural design.There is one fan in the center on the top of the dome, and 5 fans are arranged around it. The base is close to the chassis and surrounded by 9 fans. All 15 fans are set to air inlet mode to create a positive pressure air duct for the chassis.The entire structure is completed by 3D printing. The printing space of Tuozhu H2D and H2S printers can just accommodate the design size. It took several days just to print all the parts.
The appearance of the finished product is stunning enough, but the owner of UP also bluntly said that the internal wiring management is a disaster.Fortunately, as long as the wire is fixed to prevent it from sweeping the fan blades, the entire device runs quite quietly, without the expected noise surge.
In the most hard-core game testing session, UP conducted an A/B comparison test using "Battlefield 6".When the original glass side panel was installed, the maximum temperature of the processor directly reached 86°C. After replacing the super dome spherical side panel, the CPU temperature dropped directly to 67°C under the same game load, a drop of nearly 20°C. The UP owner himself said that the effect was incredible. The only physical change was that he could feel the continuous air volume next to the chassis.
At present, the UP owner has uploaded the 3D printing file of this device to Thingiverse. Using the Lian Li O11 chassis, players with spare fans can directly copy this cooling solution.
