The Water Cooled DSL Modem
by danlor on Apr.02, 2010, under Uncategorized
It’s here… It’s working… It’s cool. The block came in today, and it was a pretty good fit. There was only a slight modification needed.
As you can see I had to grind out a place for the capacitor on the bottom. I also ground out a channel on the top of the block to fit around a coil. Something I took for granted though… the wire on the coil was NOT insulated, creating an interference issue when it touched the water block copper plate. When i powered up the modem the first time it errored out. I inserted a piece of plastic between them, fire it back up and all was good. I used thermal epoxy to attach the water block btw. There’s no good way to clamp it down effectively, and I have had good success in the past using it on north bridge/south bridge chips.
I punched a couple holes in the top of the dsl case like I planned, but unfortunately the block is just slightly too tall.
It looks ok… But I may end up just cutting a hole for the entire water block to poke through. Not too worried about it right now.
The modem now runs icy cold… just the way it should be. No more modem over heating for me!!!
