Silverstone TJ05 Mod

with those 2 fans on the side like that up against your side panel you should cut some holes onto the window so those fans would have some cooler air to circulate.

Edit: nvm upon close inspection it looks like there are holes with wire grills screwed onto it

apart from wiring, looks good! 7/10

btw what are the temperatures on this motherboard like?

well, to be honest with you, they arent to great, the n/b chip gets to about 85c under load, but theres been loads of posts on forums sugesting to reaply the thermal grease (sticks around 70c when reaplied apparently) on the n/b and s/b chips as the factory stuff they use is badly applied, so thats my next little job to do, but appart from that, the overall mobo temp stay around 28/30c idle and 40c under load.

Looks great man. 7/10 Looks like there's lots of airflow but do you have enough air being pushed out? If you have too much blowing in it will just blow hot air around the inside. And how about overclocking? that CPU is highly overclockable....should easily go to 3.6ghz with no problems.

by: evertigox;692870

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Looks great man. 7/10 Looks like there's lots of airflow but do you have enough air being pushed out? If you have too much blowing in it will just blow hot air around the inside. And how about overclocking? that CPU is highly overclockable....should easily go to 3.6ghz with no problems.

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Hey thur. My cpu is currently 3.66ghz on stock Vcore, running at a stable 30c which im happy with. Iv also sorted the n/b overheating on the board by reaplying thermal grease to the chipset and temporerily adding an 80mm fan blowing onto the n/b chip.
At the current time, iv got 2 120mm and 2 80mm going in and 3 80mm and 1 120mm goin out, so case coolings no problem.
Thanks for the rating :)

Nice job. Silverstone is a quality product

Wow, how cool, i love the side panel mod. Makes me wanna do the same to my
TJ-09. what did you use to cut out the holes for the fans? they came oyt so neat. 10/10

by: KBD;693647

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Wow, how cool, i love the side panel mod. Makes me wanna do the same to my
TJ-09. what did you use to cut out the holes for the fans? they came oyt so neat. 10/10

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I just used a 78mm hole saw drill bit. Its quite tricky, i had to get some thicker perspex because the old stuff cracked under drilling. Just make sure you arent too heavy, i also found it easyer to drill half way on oneside, flip it over and then drill the rest of the way through on the other side.

Yea, i eventually figured out that it had to be a hole saw, but i was thinking that the plexiglass would crack, but you are saying that you used thicker perspex, i would assume it's only a bit thicker than the case plexi and that you were drilling very slowly, right? Also, why perspex, using thicker plexi won't cut it?

by: KBD;694754

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Yea, i eventually figured out that it had to be a hole saw, but i was thinking that the plexiglass would crack, but you are saying that you used thicker perspex, i would assume it's only a bit thicker than the case plexi and that you were drilling very slowly, right? Also, why perspex, using thicker plexi won't cut it?

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I just got my hands on perspex alot easyer as i was in the shop at the time when i thought of it. I used a 5mm perspex house window sized panel and cut it down to size then attached it to the case, it was quite expensive (£21 or so), but i can do a few case mods for the size of it.

I had the drill at full power and just didnt put much pressure on it, then when i got about 2.5mm in, i flipped the panel and drilled from the other side. When i did i test run, i found that if i went all the way through from one side, the exit of the hole wasnt very tidey and had a few chips in it.

I see, i'm glad you cleared this up for me :) I can get plexi a a lot easier so i'll probably use that instead. 2 80mm fans will make my system look and run cooler. Thnx again! :)