A company called HDPlex makes PSUs for small form-factor builds, ones which use GaN transistors which lets them be tiny - they do a 250W and a 500W, but both have a feature which lets you sync two PSUs with a link cable - two 500s would power that build and they're really compact, 55*40*200mm.
Looking a t the dimensions of things, one would fit in the void where the GPU overhangs the motherboard, the second might fit against the top of the case above the PCIe slot, if the riser can go to 90 degrees in the gap that would remain
Bouncing through your videos, I'm left puzzled by the choice of having both pipe fittings coming out the side of the motherboard. If you had them angled so one went forward (away from the ITX back plate) and had a similar 90 degree arrangement for the pump. It feels like you could maybe even get the pump inside the footprint of the graphics card.
Yo, looks sound so far. Only thought that comes to mind initially is conflict with psu cabling with the pipes running between the psu and motherboard as pointed out at 13:57. Love what you're doing though gents!
Thanks Sean! We think there will be space for piping and wiring - we might need to use soft tubing through the centre for the flex, just connected back to copper on each end.
The footprint of the current design is 200x340mm, so we could only fit one 240mm rad, and then we may as well use a 280mm. But honestly we're probably going to nail the externally cooled case before putting much thought into adapting it to be a self-contained, cooled build. We have the option of a 200mm square rad too. It's a shame no-one makes a 200x300mm rad, as that would fit perfectly. We've had this 280mm rad easily cooling both components at full power, though the fans were at 100% and there were 4 of them.
The MonoBlock fits all ATX motherboards. The only limiting factor will be the height of the VRM heatsinks, but they're usually fairly small on ATX boards compared to ITX. The I/O of the motherboard/GPU will not line up on an ATX board though.
@@BilletLabs what about rotating the GPU ? I know Theres a lot of difficulties. But the Connectors could be elongated to the I/O Panel side Maybe ? Maybe too much difficulties.
There's around 9mm of air gap above the PSU which might be enough. We also have the option of thermal pasting the PSU body to the bottom 5mm ally plate to help cool it passively. But we'll see what works! ✌
So cool to see how it all comes together. Looking forward to part 2 !
This is wildly badass. Great job!
Finally somebody did this!!! Subscribed!
That'd be a crazy small footprint for top tier components. Looks interesting.
A company called HDPlex makes PSUs for small form-factor builds, ones which use GaN transistors which lets them be tiny - they do a 250W and a 500W, but both have a feature which lets you sync two PSUs with a link cable - two 500s would power that build and they're really compact, 55*40*200mm.
Looking a t the dimensions of things, one would fit in the void where the GPU overhangs the motherboard, the second might fit against the top of the case above the PCIe slot, if the riser can go to 90 degrees in the gap that would remain
Bouncing through your videos, I'm left puzzled by the choice of having both pipe fittings coming out the side of the motherboard. If you had them angled so one went forward (away from the ITX back plate) and had a similar 90 degree arrangement for the pump. It feels like you could maybe even get the pump inside the footprint of the graphics card.
Billet Labs try not to be awesome challenge (impossible)
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Following with interest (please make sure your case is compatible with ATX PSU (160mm)
That would be highly unlikely I'm sorry to say!
Yo, looks sound so far. Only thought that comes to mind initially is conflict with psu cabling with the pipes running between the psu and motherboard as pointed out at 13:57. Love what you're doing though gents!
Thanks Sean! We think there will be space for piping and wiring - we might need to use soft tubing through the centre for the flex, just connected back to copper on each end.
Have you considered 2x240 extra slim rads top and slim fans top and bottom? Should be enough to cool both at full power.
The footprint of the current design is 200x340mm, so we could only fit one 240mm rad, and then we may as well use a 280mm. But honestly we're probably going to nail the externally cooled case before putting much thought into adapting it to be a self-contained, cooled build. We have the option of a 200mm square rad too. It's a shame no-one makes a 200x300mm rad, as that would fit perfectly.
We've had this 280mm rad easily cooling both components at full power, though the fans were at 100% and there were 4 of them.
Found here through reddit and instantly subbed. Really excited to see what’s coming!
How much does the motherboard-monoblock-GPU sandwich weigh? 😅
Thanks! It's around 2.6kg 😁
It would be cool to have compatibilty with atx motherboards defined .. I want to test this with a 2 dim overclocking board
The MonoBlock fits all ATX motherboards. The only limiting factor will be the height of the VRM heatsinks, but they're usually fairly small on ATX boards compared to ITX. The I/O of the motherboard/GPU will not line up on an ATX board though.
Why don't you auction off a block so you have money to invest in a filming setup?
Make the GPU backplate the case cover
Also allows for better passive cooling capability when slotted
We'd love to, but the riser cable will need to go over the top between the GPU backplate and the case.
@@BilletLabs what about rotating the GPU ? I know Theres a lot of difficulties. But the Connectors could be elongated to the I/O Panel side Maybe ? Maybe too much difficulties.
The solid facer does not work as it needs to be grilled to allow PSU exhaust.
There's around 9mm of air gap above the PSU which might be enough. We also have the option of thermal pasting the PSU body to the bottom 5mm ally plate to help cool it passively. But we'll see what works! ✌