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What amazes me is the durability of this unit other than the original power supply. When drilling these large holes I spun out the HD1000 a least three times whacking it against tools, dish racks and the cat.
The case is a little kinked; the front scratched and scuffed. I didn't want to mess with removing the mainboard for this procedure, I didn't want to deal with the interface connectors and ribbons. I shook out and shop vac'd most of the metal shards from drilling.
Exhaust temperature about 18F warmer than ambient.
posted by MeMu at 2:55 PM
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Most of the heat probably coming from the PS.
Most of the heat coming from VR regulation chips:
u23:TP58 - 2.5V
u20:TP45 - 1.8V
u12:TP29 - 1.5V
last one is the one to prone fail as it hold a current around 2 A (!) and all the VRs feed by +3.3V rail.
Wow - that's a lot of heat coming off those VR chips!
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