Kangaroo Mini PC Cooling solution

GenPatton68 · February 9, 2016

So I recently bought a Kangaroo mini PC from InFocus after hearing about it on an episode of NCIX Tech Tips. I did some research before buying it and found out that it has some fairly significant thermal throttling issues. Knowing that going in, I thought it would be interesting to try and come up with a way to cool it. So after I received the computer I took two fans out of my bitcoin miner (110 gh/s ), and then mounted them on a block of wood I cut using, quite possibly, the worst. saw. ever. I was expecting only a slight improvement, but the two fans completely eliminated all thermal throttling! It was amazing to see how much of a difference it made. Let me know what you think. (That Blue Light Tho)

beezn · February 13, 2016

I just got one of them on Friday. I'm going to use a USB fan http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G05A2MU?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00 to cool mine hidden in the back of my entertainment center.

Are your fans set up as push->pull? Have you made any refinements?

What all are you doing with it? Im going down the HTPC route with a side of Steam in home streaming.

GenPatton68 · February 16, 2016

The fans are set up to push->pull. I haven't really made any improvements just because it pretty much eliminated the problem. I did have to to set the pc on top of something to get it more in the path of the air. I also want to see what would happen if I pumped actually cold air through it.

I am actually using this as my gaming PC. Yes I know it isn't really ment for that, but this is the most powerful PC I own. My other computer is Lenovo t61. The Lenovo has a Core 2 duo, so the Kangaroo is a HUGE performance boost.

(By the way I used a program called Core Temp to keep track of the temperature. It's really nice, it shows the temperature of each core in your notification tray.)