Quiet Desk (Not Desktop) PC

Anonymous Coward writes "Rusty took a wholly different approach to PC noise: he built his XP1900+ machine right into the desk! While it may not make the PC industry scramble to define a new *desk* (not desktop) form factor, Rusty's inventive techniques will surely have computer hardware enthusiasts poring over his fine work."

Comments

Hot vibrating wood

[Johnso]

Athlon XP + direct encasement in wood + heavy use = worst fire hazard ever

Who would want to work on such a hot, shaky piece of wood?

Re:OK, I'm sick of this

[Peyna]

/. has enough bandwidth to handle it's own user load. If /. locally mirrors sites it links to, or at least mirrors just the main page so we can all get the gist of it, then there won't be any problem.

Google, The Wayback Machine, etc. cache the world world without any legal problems, so why is it so hard for /. to be responsible with their journalism?

Most news sources don't even directly link other web sites like this, they would just mention it exists and give the name it. If the person cared enough about it, they can spend their time finding it.

What's all this...

[TitaniumFox]

...about the desk bursting into flames, people, and why all the "insightful" mods that go along with it?

There's a few pictures mirrored in the posts. If you go look at them you'll see that he has a Zalman heatsink, and a ducted case fan blowing right on it.

Lessee. Last I checked, copper had a favorable heat transfer coeffecient. Fins are a valid way of transmitting heat to air, too.

Passively, a Zalman Flower Heatsink might not stand up to an Athlon XP 1900+, but even with a modicum of air flow, it'll do fine.

Re:Mirror the damn sites

[gvonk]

To the Editors:

(read this, it's important)

I WOULD PAY MONEY to have access to a subscribers-only cache of stories.

Period.

Money,
out of my pocket.

This is Old

[Lucas Membrane]

One of the first nearly-personal computers, the IBM System 3, model 6, which booted up into a Basic (or RPG II), console was built like a desk. This thing came out in the spring of 1971. It had 16k of real memory, 48k of virtual memory, mountable disks, optional VDT, builtin 100 CPS dot-matrix printer right in the middle of the desk, card reader, card punch, and as much free desktop space as most computer geeks have today, etc.

Drink hazard?

[Renraku]

A good rule I've learned with delicate electronics, through the actions of others while in high school. Always place the computer higher up than the drink is placed. That way, if the drink spills, it won't trickle down into the computer.