Water Jacket
By creating a home made waterjacket we managed to save quite a bit money and time, even though it took quite a while to build. Waiting for a water jacket from the US would take several weeks, unless you wanna pay US$35 for air freight, plus $30 for the water jacket itself. The local alternative was to get an aluminium block and bore holes and create our own water jacket. Except we don't know where to get an aluminium block or a borer from. Our solution was part genius, part laziness. By taking a nice big heatsink (Intel OEM 300A heatsink) and wacking bits of metal around the sides, we managed to create a highly efficient waterjacket/heatsink combination. Here are the steps we took to build it:
Step one was to get a nice big sheet of aluminium.
Step two was to add this to the heatsink we ripped off the Celeron 300A
By cutting the metal in the correct shapes, it was possible to build the sides and top for the heatsink. We drilled two large holes at opposing corners in the top and squeezed the piping through these, and sealed with silicon
Finally we cut the three other sides and used silicon to bond them to the above set up, and wrapped a rubber band around to hold it in place while the silicon set for 24 hours.
