Guide: How to Insulate your mobo for TEC Cooling

[omaryunus]

Tec insulating Guide
By omaryunus


Well as most of you know been working hard on my comp for the past few weeks and well Ive been insulating my board along the way… so I decided I would make a little guide out of it since there really isn’t a recent one around and I want more ppl to get into this and see how easy this is This is more of a follow the pics of what I did more than this is what you have to do and blah blah :p

Well here goes:

First a list of things you need to insulate your mobo:

1) NEOPRENE!! (LOATS OF IT) just in case



2) Conformal Coating



3) Dielectric Grease



4) Silicone rubber Adhesive



5) Liquid Electric Tape




First for any good TEC block or setup you need a good… back plate


EK makes a nice one and it works perfectly


cut out a piece of neoprene to go along the back of the mobo so no air comes in there


Screws in and good to go


This is how it looks now

Enough with the backplate moving on to the back of the board


wipe the back of the board clean

now with the Conformal coating (if you have a tube this is how it will go)

here is a pic from ira-k(on OCN) which shows the conformal zone on the back of the mobo so this should help:




a nice thick layer of conformal coating in the conformal zone (shown above)


another view just to show you from a diff angle

and now to the front:

use the silicone rubber adhesive


heres how it starts


and done


Diff views


view from the top

and now use the Dow conformal again on the front

here is another pic from ira-k (on OCN) which shows you the Conformal zone



heres how it should look put it on nice and thick

Closer looks:





and well one thing which the EK backplate is not good for is keeping the neoprene down in the back so you can use some of the electric liquid tape


lifted up we need to bring it down


and down


good pic

now to the neoprene layers :d




second layer on and test fitted


ready to install the CPU

continued on next post...

[omaryunus]

clean pins


GREASED up pins


CPU in


pushed down


repacked and more dielectric grease coming out


CPU ready and in w/ Dielectric Grease


Dielectric Greases the neoprene so that the second layer sticks with the first layer




Second layer on


AS ceramique on and good to go


and its installed!


now the liquid electric tape and its sealed in

and it is insulated hope you all enjoyed and learnt a lot

[NaeKuh]

really nice guide, however its super outdated.

Theres a new method using gummy eraser, or kneeding eraser they found out on the phase section.

Works really good, and doesnt leave a nasty mess.

[omaryunus]

yea i know about that but just wanted to give my input for those ppl that wanna use this :p you never know thanks for looking anyways

[m411b]

really nice guide, however its super outdated.

Theres a new method using gummy eraser, or kneeding eraser they found out on the phase section.

Works really good, and doesnt leave a nasty mess.

Hey NaeKuh, can you point us to that method? I have looked and searched for gummy eraser and kneeding eraser and cannot find anything.

Thanx, Lee

[Circaflex]

here you go friend http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=201916

[NaeKuh]

Hey NaeKuh, can you point us to that method? I have looked and searched for gummy eraser and kneeding eraser and cannot find anything.

Thanx, Lee

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=201916

[omaryunus]

oh well thanks for looking at my survey :p lol its all good whatever makes you guys happy

[m411b]

oh well thanks for looking at my survey :p lol its all good whatever makes you guys happy

Well, I didnt mean it like that! You've done a really nice job there.. The only problem is that I do not think you realize the mess you are going to have to deal with if you have to RMA that board. Not to mention, this is a really old way of doing things, especially if there are newer ways to get it done.

BTW, thanx Circaflex and NaeKuh!

[genec57]

oh well thanks for looking at my survey :p lol its all good whatever makes you guys happy

Don't be bummed about it. This is just one more example of the fact that no matter what you do in technology today it will be obsolete tomorrow.
Good job - thanks for contributing.

[littleowl]

omaryunus!!! You are now part of the stickie section of the tec section.
Thanks for the guide!!!!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=164384

[omaryunus]

w00t w00t yay my first sticky in XS yay thanks alot littleowl



omaryunus

[littleowl]

w00t w00t yay my first sticky in XS yay thanks alot littleowl



omaryunus

don't think me. I just made a link in the thread to your thread.
you did a nice job with your walk through.
Now you need to do another one with the eraser idea.
I have never used it and never heard of it till recently. Looks like a great idea.
Does anyone know where you buy the eraser stuff at?

[drifter]

I used to paint (but it was so time consuming i had to switch to a business school), and had that eraser with me all the time, Faber Castel makes those. Any decent art shop should have those.

[Vinas]

This should be stickied, at least.

[omaryunus]

this is stickied ans i am currently working on finding a bunch of these erasers to use them to make a guide for the eraser method and Im not bummed out this is for ppl who use TECs in a WB not for ppl with Phase... since with a TEC WB our temps fluctuate ALOT so we create more condensation so its better if you overkill it rather than just the bare minimum...Im gonna try the Gummy method on my BloodIron and see how it goes but personally I dont think it will work that well but you never know I am currently in the process of making a guide for ppl who want to get into using TECs and that should be done in a few weeks time so hopefully get another sticky

[repsol_23]

this is stickied ans i am currently working on finding a bunch of these erasers to use them to make a guide for the eraser method and Im not bummed out this is for ppl who use TECs in a WB not for ppl with Phase... since with a TEC WB our temps fluctuate ALOT so we create more condensation so its better if you overkill it rather than just the bare minimum...Im gonna try the Gummy method on my BloodIron and see how it goes but personally I dont think it will work that well but you never know I am currently in the process of making a guide for ppl who want to get into using TECs and that should be done in a few weeks time so hopefully get another sticky

Well I just did my cpu yesterday with the eraser method. One thing to note is that if you do as I did and place the eraser on top of the conformal coating I already had on my board, then the eraser is a major pain to remove cleanly. I tested this out on a small portion of my board and was disappointed that it didn't all come off. Guess it works better when you haven't applied any coatings at all to the mobo. Here is the only shot I could get off before my camera phone died. I also covered the entire section up to the cpu wasn't able to get a shot of it then, maybe next time I tear my board up I can do so.