My $0.15 Passive Hd cooler

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Caramanos2000

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Well I chose this design to maximize surface are. It seems to work quite well even though pennies arnt made of copper anymore. The plating seems to be sufficient. 5 minute epoxy and Synthetic thermal ebay paste lol, ratio is 60/40 epoxy to paste. I will glue these to the opposite end of the drive of were the cables go as my 120mm fan pushes are around this area.
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Dont have the third drive yet. Should have it soon. My current drives are at 29C and 32C. How do I take screenies of these temps?
 
Caramanos2000 said:
Dont have the third drive yet. Should have it soon. My current drives are at 29C and 32C. How do I take screenies of these temps?
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The print screen button sends an image of whatever's on your screen to your 'clipboard'. Paste it into paint and save the image file, or paste it into Photoshop and you can crop it if desired.
 
I think this is kinda cool. If I remember correctly from my nerd coin collecting days it was 1962-1981 they were made from 95% copper. Might not make a noticeable difference, but I would think that you would need as much coverage as possible on the surface of the hard drive.
 
Are you sandwiching the glue in between the pennies? If so, then that would insulate against heat conduction. I assume that the thermal paste is in between and the glue is "around" the pennies, right?
 
Caramanos2000 said:
I mixed the glue and the thermal paste together.
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Ah, I see. Well, that works then! At least you made a component for your PC that is ACTUALLY worth 15 cents! Most of the crap out there is made in China for 15 cents but marked up 10,000% for sale in the good ol Inflation States of America.
 
what might work better is running a strip of glue down each side if it's hard enough to hold them in place as i'm sure you'll get better heat transfer between each with just thermal paste
 
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