Intel NUC 7th generation fan mod by hipsel

Last crawled date: 4 years, 12 months ago

I wanted to lower the fan noise of my intel NUC and had a Noctua NF-A9x14 PWM lying around. I thought obout replacing the top lid of the NUC by this one and mounting the NF-A9x14 to my lid. I hoped to be able to disable (/remove) the internal noisy fan and instead suck the air out with my custom lid. The air would in this case be sucked out through the ventilation slit from the outside.
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Unfortunately the Noctua fan I used had not enough pressure to suck the air through the tiny ventilation slits. If anyone has an idea on how to improve the design, let me know!