Perfect Fit gdemu & fan

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Perfect Fit gdemu & fan

Post#1 » Thu Aug 27, 2015 5:25 pm

Just got my GDemu after waiting months watching for the preorders to be open for less than 24 hours and wait a couple more months to get it. Totally worth it! XD

Also found this little fan and heatsink on an old cheap low end nvidia graphics card that fit Perfectly alongside the gdemu. I've seen other mods out there putting heatsinks and/or additional fans to help cooling, especially the power supply gets fairly hot.
This provides great airflow over to the psu and right under the gdemu across the cooling plate. pins plugged into the 5v power. This fan will go up to 12v but its plenty fast and quiet at 5v. I also swapped out the stock fan in here with one from another of my dreamcasts that is practically silent. All 5 of my dreamcasts have had all different parts from different manufacturers 3 of the fans are fairly noisy and this one is silent and seems to move enough air.

There is no hard modding and this is NOT permanent it can be easily removed at any time. A bit of thermal paste underneath and a bit of hot glue on each side to hold it but will easily pop off.

It looks too close but there's enough room for everything. at least a mm of room everywhere and nothing is touching the gdemu and its not too close to hit the sd card but i will not remove it while its turned on to be safe.
I trimmed away the plastic on that side to provide more space and airflow underneath. It fit perfectly and even a screwhole on the heatsink fit right where that little nub for the gd drive by the screw is so it sits perfectly flat on the plate. Like it was mean to be lol
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If I were ever going to do more Hard modding like overclocking I would cut away a the plate underneath and put the heatsink and fan right onto the cpu and gpu.
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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu

Post#2 » Tue Sep 08, 2015 5:37 pm

Cool idea, Had been thinking of doing something of the same myself (I am finally on the list for a GDemu).

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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu

Post#3 » Tue Sep 08, 2015 9:49 pm

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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu

Post#4 » Tue Sep 08, 2015 11:21 pm

Have to say out of all of those mods yours looks the cleanest Tact. I too am finally on the list for getting a GDEMU and I may have to do something like this as well. Nice job!

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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu

Post#5 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:24 pm

That fan just happened to fit. It was from an nvidia gt120 card.
Also I re cut a new shield for the power supply with a hole just the right size for the air vent of the fan so the air is kept over the front of the power supply and actually cools much better now =)

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and what makes a great cover just a blank cd protector

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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu

Post#6 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:30 pm

Really nice man. Didn't know the system in your avatar was yours
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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu & fan

Post#7 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:37 pm

The color change LED Is a Looottt slower than that picture ^^
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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu & fan

Post#8 » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:45 pm

Haha nice man! Nvidia, the way it was meant to be played. Looks great with the clear case! I was not sure what that would look like. I also have the black edition gdemu and a smoke clear shell. I like the look of the discs spinning in mine so I put the gdemu in my sports edition dc. How about a pic with the lid closed? Anyways sexy dc bro! One of my favs for sure! 8-)

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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu & fan

Post#9 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 1:43 am

Aha I do enjoy seeing the disc spinning Thats the only thing I will miss. =)

I don't like hot glue is temporary so to secure it I drilled a small hole in the heatsink right where the screw for the original gdrom and used the screw to hold the heatsink in place This just keeps getting better =)
Also I put some leftover arctic thermal paste under it, not sure if it will help.

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Re: Perfect Fit gdemu & fan

Post#10 » Mon Sep 14, 2015 2:07 pm

Engineering perfection! It won't hurt :geek:

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