GIGABYTE BRIX Pro case - parametric

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Got three motherboards without heatsink or case, made my own heatsink plate where some generic heatsinks can be mounted, for example: 90mm-PC-CPU-Cooler-2-Heatpipe-2-Cooling-Fan-Heatsink-for-LGA-775-1155-1156 https://www.ebay.ie/itm/90mm-PC-CPU-Cooler-2-Heatpipe-2-Cooling-Fan-Heatsink-for-LGA-775-1155-1156/143387334073?hash=item21628d15b9:m:m1h48_c9tiwXHvud-wWtl-Q There is plenty of space under the motherboard for a thick HDDs, space for a DC-DC regulator to drive the fan with a constant speed, instead of load-based regulation. Trusting manual tweaked speed (this way I can do stress tests and find the best performance/noise ratio). If people are worried still original smart speed controller can be used (but it will require doing some connector adapter as your external fan might not have the same connector). One of the fans is lowered down to create draft over a few ferrite cores which get hot without cooling, therefore the top has such odd shape (to channel the draft). This in turn creates suction on the base of the case, which then crates draft on the opposite side, so memory and HDD get colled down as well. Top fits together without screws as it would be tricky in this setup. On the original case the top is solid and the motherboard is screwed in from the bottom, here the motherboard is screwed from the top into the solid bottom. Sicky tape or small dabs of glue can be used to make the top side more solid (to put the 2 parts together). There is a slight overhang on top parts, but should be printable without any support. There is a separate part to be added on top of the power button, just to give the power button perfect haptic feedback when the top part is inserted (the top part as a bigger button which toches this smaller button)