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Off-The-Rack Liquid-Cooled PC Case

Posted by timothy on from the good-kind-of-vaporware dept.

hummer357 writes: "A Korean company is making a computer case with a nifty liquid-cooling system (for psu, video and processor) that doesn't use any fans or motors. The CalmPC. Here's a review. Maybe this is the thing we have been waiting for ... finally silence on the desktop. Too bad the supplied case is extremely ugly"

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  1. Who cares that it's Ugly? by Vladinator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I don't - I want to run a 2 CPU athalon system as a server for my website, and knowing that it's not going to croak like that one on Tom's Hardware is very important to me. I may just have to get one of these.

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  2. Re:about the case... by MoneyT · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The future started in 1998 when the iMacs were relesed with *gasp* no fans, Just a heatsink. Followed shortly thereafter by G4 towers with no fans (except a small one in the power supply). Besides, as someone here already said, the harddrive contributes noise, as well as the CD ROM.

    'sides, I'm still not sure if having liquid running through my PC would be the best thing for it should it be ruptured.

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  3. silence on the desktop? by johnrengler · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Didn't the PowerMac G4 Cube run silently? Haven't all of the latest iMacs come without fans?

    Hmmm....

    And don't the new iMacs have a variable speed fan, that comes on when you need it, and rests when you don't?

    You guys should try a new Mac to find out what a quiet machine can be like...

  4. Re:Get the American one by dstone · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That (American) case sucks. Well, maybe it cools effectively, but the distinguishing feature of the Korean case is that it uses no fans or motors. Less moving parts and less noise is a good thing. The American one has 3 freaking fans on the top.

  5. It's a � notice by yerricde · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Could the guy possibly be more obnoxious about posting his name all over the review?

    What you're seeing in those JPEGs is part of a copyright notice. Give the fellow a break; would you want credit if somebody else used JPEG images that you created in his own review?

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