Thread: The Airplane Carry-on mITX Titan build

Given the Titan's vapor chamber cooler, it's no surprise that the size and airflow of the case make no difference whatsoever.

The CPU temperature is what I was looking forward to seeing. The only times the CPU is going to be maxed out is with multiplayer games like Planetside 2, Battlefield 3, or pretty much any MMO, or with compute heavy tasks. Still, 81C at stock clock for a Haswell i7 in a small case like that is pretty decent.

Im thinking if I rotate the cooler so the openings of the fins are towards the side case vent hole it will cool better. Right now the solid edge of the heatsink is facing the vent .... I think the hot air doesnt have much places to go that arent restricted. Another idea I had was reversing all the fans to blow up instead of down. Ill probably be tinkering for a while.

Just want to post an update. I took the case and all power cord and such on a trial run to a beach house for a weekend. It was a big success with the family. Watched Disney's "John Carter" on a 15 foot projected screen then after the kids went to bed we played GRID 2 in splitscreen way into the morning.

So the trial run was successful, but how about the intended purpose of flying on a plane?

Well this morning I successfully caught a flight from Philadelphia to Atlanta with the computer as my carry on. It went butter smooth. I didn't even have to unpack it for security, just sent the whole case straight through the X-Ray machine. It fit perfectly into the overhead bins, quite a bit easier than some of the other passengers bags that I am sure were under the size requirements *cough*.

One thing I will say is I am not sure if I am actually under the 40 lb limit. According to my home bathroom scale I am at exactly 40 lb. According to the check-in desk's scale (which I placed it one quickly to get a measurement) it is 42.5 lb. I don't trust the calibration for either scale really..... I'll have to get a true scale with balance weight bars to measure at some point.


Heres a photo of the setup in my hotel room...... So is this successful? Does it do what I wanted it to? Yes, Yes it does. Is it flashy or glowing, or even water cooled? No it isn't but I had serious constraints limiting all those things.....