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

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