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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. Re:sleeping by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Interesting
    i don't think i could personally sleep at night without the comforting whir of the fans

    You do realize that noise, even if you've grown used to it and are not consciously bothered by it, has been shown to have an adverse effect on you? A constant background noise above 40 dB causes stress thus increasing your blood pressure and affects your concentration. On the long term the stress becomes harmful.

    Combine noisy computers with work related stress, too much caffeine and listening to music at work no wonder the young coders burn out.

  2. Efficiency by 3ryon · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If I could just figure out a way to let it dump it's excess heat into the cold water line that feeds my water heater, the case would pay for itself! But why stop there? We could run pipes all over the house (to the refridgerator, the Air Conditioner, etc) and dump their excess heat into the cold water line...we may not need a hot water heater at all.

    Ok, it's a loony idea, but I have to find some reason to justify a water cooled PC to my wife.

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    1. Re:Efficiency by Chris+Hiner · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Alot of the refrigerators in campers run off either AC, the alternator's DC, or propane. With propane you can get cold without any moving parts. See:
      http://www.howstuffworks.com/refrigerator5.htm

  3. More and larger fans for a quiet PC? by chrysalis · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Mmmm... Let's see :
    • A small fan turning very fast are noisy. Most PCs have a couple of them.
    • A small fan turning slowly is quiet but inefficient.
    • A large fan turning slowly is quiet and efficient.

    So, what about having boxes with two slow, but very large fans (one on a side to inject air, another one on the other side to reject it)? It would probably be cheap and quiet.


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