Atari TT PSU & CPU Fan Cable Tidy Up
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2018 6:42 pm
After recapping the Atari TT PSU and adding the Noctura fan I added a CPU Fan and heatsink.
The CPU sits under the RAM board and gets hot as air gets trapped under there so I also put a CPU heatsink and fan over the 68030 as this sometimes ran hot and just want to prolong the life of this wonderful machine. Heatsink and fan were salvaged off of an old graphic card. Used thermal tape to attach the heatsink.
This originally led to a molex extension to power the fan but I wasn't happy with the aesthetics. Thus I got hold of a fan splitter board desoldered the CPU fan connector to a normal PC 3 pin fan connector from the molex. The fan splitter board is run off of the PSU fan out and the PSU fan and CPU fan connect to the board which sits nicely in the bottom left corner of the motherboard.
CPU Heatsink with Fan under RAM Board:
Fan Board:
Board and PSU Fan:
The CPU sits under the RAM board and gets hot as air gets trapped under there so I also put a CPU heatsink and fan over the 68030 as this sometimes ran hot and just want to prolong the life of this wonderful machine. Heatsink and fan were salvaged off of an old graphic card. Used thermal tape to attach the heatsink.
This originally led to a molex extension to power the fan but I wasn't happy with the aesthetics. Thus I got hold of a fan splitter board desoldered the CPU fan connector to a normal PC 3 pin fan connector from the molex. The fan splitter board is run off of the PSU fan out and the PSU fan and CPU fan connect to the board which sits nicely in the bottom left corner of the motherboard.
CPU Heatsink with Fan under RAM Board:
Fan Board:
Board and PSU Fan: