Quote from: teslaman on October 19, 2015, 11:18:29 PM

Thanks for the mention TXSteve.

The one thing in that video that I wouldn't recommend doing more than once, is bending those ends down on the cube case. It got pretty flimsy the second time I did that and it completely broke off the third time! Sad

KnC used some really cheap metal, which is even more aggravating considering what we paid for them, heh.

As TXSteve mentioned, taking the stickers off the VRMs is a good idea, especially if you use the thermal tape, like they did in the video.

GenTarkin, here's my before and after temps with the heatsinks and thermal epoxy/adhesive. http://i.imgur.com/2aE6f7S.jpg This is on a Neptune cube, but they are laid out the same. That hot VRM must be messed up or something, because it always runs really hot compared to all the rest of my cubes.

These also compare the different fans, KnC's supplied fans and the Noctua upgrade:
Copper Heatsinks with thermal tape: http://i.imgur.com/fcX9cp7.jpg
VS
Copper Heatsinks with thermal epoxy: http://i.imgur.com/yNIsXby.jpg
As you can see, the epoxy worked quite a bit better than the 3M thermal tape that came on the heatsinks. Cool

I didn't do a test going from the stock thick thermal pads, to the heatsinks with thermal tape. I was doing this upgrade on the Bonus Neptune, which came with NO thermal pads! By the time I modified that one regular cube (first link), I had already switched to using the epoxy.

Here's my full gallery if you want to browse through the rest: http://imgur.com/a/zQDSa

hey teslaman, good to see you -- you were putting out a lot of good info on modding these things back when there was very little if any other info to go on. Copper heatsinks, 2 part thermal epoxy, noctura fans, cutting the Eplate and probably a bunch of other stuff I forgot, were all originally his ideas. After doing and redoing a bunch of these thing I like to think I learned a few of my own tricks too, but he got the ball rolling. thx dude