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PC Case Made Completely of Fans
drgroove writes "I work in a computer store building PCs all day. With every new case there are one or two 8cm case fans included. Most of the systems we build do not need any more cooling than is supplied by the CPU fan as most of our customers generally don't go in for all this 'overclocking malarky.'
Looking around the stock room I discovered two large boxes of unused 8cm case fans. Surfing through case mod sites, the most popular mod you see (besides Lexan windows) is some form of whizzy cooling device, be it fan or waterblock. People go to great lengths to keep their PCs cool. Now... putting these two things together..."
Now that's cool.
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"They are making a case out of computer enthusiasts? Whoa! Hardcore!"
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I'd hit it.
Been there, done that.
To keep his server from melting during the slashdotting.
As an aside, that thing has to be LOUD AS HELL!
How LOUD does that thing have to be? There are two fans in my case. One has been disabled due to the incessant racket. I can't imagine what this thing is like.
'Standards' in computing only impress those who are impressed by things like 'standards'.
Its time to let go of fans and switch to a beter concept? Water cooling perhaps?
The case isn't very cool. It's neat, though.
'nuff said.
Does this design cool the computer super-efficiently or eliminate the user due to oxygen deprivation?
"Watch your fingers."
Anyways, it's a New Zealand mod. Which doesn't use Number 8 wire.
For shame.
Err, wow.
AND the cached link: the cached link
Where can i get one?
Y'know, if this were really to be useful at all, you might have done just a little bit of formatting to your cut & paste of TFA...
it's this attitude that got us the .geek.nz domain.
Imagine: a Mac with a case made entirely of Apple fans, all in an Apple t-shirt and beaming smiles.
Next thing we need is a fan made entirely of old computer cases!
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hook up some automated relays and build the world's first hovering computer.
- What?
I SAID, "NICE CASE!"
- WHAT??
Oh forget it.
- WHAT?!
Worst. Idea. Ever.
I pity the fool who builds his/her case out of ice.
That must be sooooo loud.
"Cool case mod."
"What?"
What does this button do...
Thus the reply to that post... I screwed up, and didn't look at the Preview, so I said screw it, and made a link to the NYUD cache instead... sorry 'bout that.
What do you mean "in case" ? ;)
People don't want to read this kind of article. They want to see the pictures. Next time post the pictures.
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damn I have tears in my eyes from laughing at this thing, its neat!
/. made me all giggly, kudos to whoever submitted this! /bet its louddd too
been a while since something on
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if you repeat them!
WHAT?
Jokes are funnier if you repeat them!
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Hopefully you are using high quality fans... Otherwise it will be noisy and affect your gaming experience.
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I recall seeing a picture of a case some guy had made out of PVC piping and two 20" box fans, like you'd buy at Wally World. This one beats that by miles....
:)
Great idea. No clue if it's practical, but cool idea. Now for someone to build one out of ice.
I wanna join this guy's fan club.
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... a computer case my kids won't touch. All except Stumpy. He'll mess with anything.
This is my post. There are many others like it. If you don't like what you read here, go try one of the others.
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Oh dear, we've just slashdotted New Zealand...
Try putting more than a pair of HDs in there and the heat will build up. On the positive side, the newer graphics cards are starting to address the issue on their own.
The sheep must be running really fast on the treadmill right now to supply enough power for the server.
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But Mirrordot's got it...
...is that he *still* has a fan *inside* the case.
If he laid it on it's right side, would it hover?
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This is slashdot, did you really expect anything original? In fact, the whole thing is probably a dupe :)
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
I don't know why, but that's just what you say when something impressive is linked to /.
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That's the last time the cat is sleeping on the CPU case...meeeeeeeoooosplsplsplsplsplspl ewwwwwww
Seven puppies were harmed during the making of this post.
My PC's two fans are bad enough. The racket from that many must be unbelievable.
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Gotta be careful with those plastic fins on the fans. They're not very durable. Last week we had a guy with four or five pieces of paper in his hand, rolled up into a cylinder. He accidentally touched the processor fan with them and three of the fins busted right out. That made the rest of the fan imbalanced and it made a terrible racket until he yanked the power cord.
If a small cylinder of paper can break them, think what a pencil or a shoe could do.
I remember seeing a case mod where the guy built a case twice as wide as a standard tower case, and put in a fan with a 1.5 foot diameter (ie as wide as the case). It moved a lot of air.
Hopefully it sucks exactly as much as it blows.
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what do you mean? are you making some sort of obtuse double-entendre? or are you just blindingly ignorant of the fact that a case with 70 fans would be both physically and ironically cool?
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I've noticed they've been getting some good scoops on the slashdot crowd recently (not that the PC fan story is necessarily one of them).
Probably been done before, but a compact fridge with a computer inside (and some lager) would be both practical and interesting...
I think the subjects speak for themselves :)
*grin* couldn't resist (yes I know I should have anyway)
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I could swear some of them are of opposite directions in the bottom picture.
That case is fantastic!
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I think it blows.
This case was on crappy-ass Attack of the Show on G4TV like last week sometime. So now 2nd-rate, fluff tech shows beat slashdot to the news? Come on.
While I and probably every other PC user on earth are trying to reduce power usage and noise, this guy go the exact opposite. Weird. But, it's probably the perfect case for a dual intel p4. ;-)
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein.
I hope the fans are all blowing airs in the same direction instead of...
:)
Actually they probably are blowing in opposite directions - to prevent the damned thing from taking off!!!
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Oddly enough, the motherboard temperature of this case (25C) is identical to the temperature inside my current casing (Lian Li PC-60: 3x 80mm intake fan, 1x 120mm exhaust, and 2 fan power supply)
I guess airflow through most well designed casings is pretty good these days.
Though I bet this "case" won't have any "hotspots". It has to be as noisy as hell though, I can't believe noone else thought to do this first.
Basically. A while ago I found a hot deal on a 32 or so pack of 200cfm 120mm Delta fans, and I started running the numbers and realized that when you start stacking so many fans together, you can create a significant amount of breeze. A wall of two packs of fans would have came out to like 40 or 50mph going through a reduced space to increase velocity. Unfortunately, such a thing is really a pipe dream because the fans can never hold pressure at this velocity, putting together a large number of fans doesn't mean its going to be cool, just that theres a lot of air flowing (water cooling/peltier cooling are much more efficient at removing heat effectively).
he didn't do his homework, he made the computer airflow so that it enters the top and exits the bottom, this works against convection and is counter productive.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/coolcube/
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I wonder if all of those fans are blowing outward...if so, it wouldn't be surprising that the results weren't any better.
I looked over the pictures on the site linked in the article. Evidently the slashdot effect isn't all that terrible this evening.
BTW, I can't see the fans running.
Next time, include movies. With sound.
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Sweet! A beowulf cluster of fans!
with all those fans, will this computer start flying around when you play games?
If you ask me, that guy is just pissin' into the wind.
I intend to rig a series of Terawatt lasers to create a case made of microsingularities, thereby creating 1x10^26 cfm of airflow.
I just found the box to change my sig. Um.... [timeless witticism].
He claims "Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side and out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air flows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... theoretically anyway."
Ideally, the top/bottom flow direction should be from bottom to top, since the coldest air is on the floor of your room (heat rises). Most datacenter-class stuff goes bottom to top as well, but that's just because that's where the A/C is, underneath the servers in the raised flooring.
And having two major airflows intersecting in the case (left->right vs top->bottom) seems inefficient as well.
Personally, I would have set it up with the bottom, front, and back as intakes, and the top and both sides as outflows. Only issue there is the usual power-supply placement puts it outflowing on the back, but I guess in such a custom case you could move the power supply so that the "rear" of it is blowing out one of the sides or the top.
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Personally, I'm quite curious about how loud the thing is. They're not silent fans or anythings, they're just plain old case fans. That thing has to be seriously annoying.
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Imagine a beoWHOOOOoooOOOSH ............
I came across this/similar stuff almost an year ago................ wtf is happening on/.?
The first thing I thought to myself... (and then immediately spoke outloud...) is "that is the dumbest looking case I've ever seen in my life." I hate to post negative comments... but seriously...
A hungry man will tell you anything if you give him a cookie.
Is there an advantage to having the airflow going in the left side and out the right? Why wouldn't it be better to have both left, right and top facing outward and have air coming in from the bottom (to avoid sucking in passing particulates and to pull in cooler air)?
So thats what you need to do to your server to avoid it being slashdotted.
God spoke to me.
I wonder if all of those fans are blowing outward...if so, it wouldn't be surprising that the results weren't any better.
Slap, read, slap, the damn, slap, article.
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There are 70 case fans in total, covering over 95% of the case AND THEY ALL WORK! Looking from the front of the case, air flows in through the left side and out the right side. The front an back blow air into the case and air flows from the top of the case down and out the bottom... theoretically anyway.
Though I think there are probably more effective layouts.
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I didn't see in the article if he was running these fans at the standard 12V or had underclocked them.
Since noise produced by air is generally proportional to fan speed and inversely proportional to fan size, you could consider each side of this mod as a single large fan.
If you set each of these fans to a few hundred rpm this beast just might be quieter than a single fan pushing the same amount of air and with much better air flow.
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Will cool down your system to a great extent and kill any fly in your room !
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Unfortunately he forgot to provide a sound recording of the case in operation (and that's *with* music playing in the background!).
(apologies to the unfortunate site that matched my "fan noise mp3" google search)
8cm tall ones at that.
RTFA. The core temperature is barely reduced by the case.
Ever seen the inside of a HP/Compaq DL320-G2? It has three banks of stacked pairs of 40mm fans. Those suckers are loud enough to damage your hearing if you power more than one of them up in the same server rack. It's incredible how much noise high-speed 40mm fans can make with the exhaust of one blowing into the intake of another.
Once Windows boots and the system driver loads, the fans slow down to a temperature-controlled speed. I pity the fool running Novell on these things though, because there *is* no driver and the fans roar constantly.... I guess if you're insane enough to run Novell, the constant barrage of decibels in the pain range is not going to bother you either.
BTW, did I mention how smart it was to have a driver in the OS control the fan speed? If your OS crashes and the CPU goes into an infinite loop, the driver will not be alive to increase the fan speed, so you fry your CPU and maybe the mobo to boot. Great design, guys!
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holy crap. the asshole removes the case fans and just leaves the cpu fan and psu fan in?
ALL the DEAD systems that have come in here, have had failed OR missing fans
[me:] You should probably post a comment about that.
meh
god. how fucking stupid to remove the fucking case fans
the cpu fan and psu fan just aren't enough
and when one of them fails. kiss your computer goodbuy
bye
that's one of the reasons i hate dell so much
they typically have an 80 mm fan on the outside.
and have a cowl that goes around the cpu heatsink
with no fan on the cpu
if the fan fails. it overheats badly
need..
at least ONE fan on the case
one psu fan
one cpu fan
if anything should fail. it won't destroy the hd and ram
god. they can't spend the 3 fucking bucks on a fan
oh hell they just remove em and dump em.
Dunno why that message disappeared from the front; I probably put it in greater-than/less-than and Slashdot discarded it as bad html.
EOM
1 - It looks shit, mods are supposed to improve the looks
2 - It is noisy, anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron
3 - "Whizzy" cooling devices are QUIET!
4 - Could have got liquid cooling for the price
5 - Fuck reading slashdot again if they think this is worthy of publishing
...for a nice rack?
That would be hot--I mean cool.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
It would look cool if it had the metallic look .. maybe he can get one of those metallic spray thingies from a hobby store .. obviously one that's not flammable.
With so many fans, im surprised it doesnt hover...now imagine if it did, and they put LED fans... RUN FOR THE HILLS!
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Check out this implementation: The Cool Cube. All fans. Shiny metal. Cool lighting.
Just needs a handle somewhere...ouch!
Wounder how much dust will wind up in this thing. Not to mention the number of fingers.
All I can say is, "oops". I did actually read it, but quite obviously didn't pay much attention to what I was reading. : )
I for one welcome our new casefan overlords.
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Even though the name is a bit scary: Project Eunuch :-)
And after demonstrating your tech skills, you can have some fun by disposing the cooling liquids!
...I thought you meant you chopped up a bunch of Linux fanboys and made a case of HuMaN FlEsH...
RTFP. he said it WASN'T very cool.
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Reminds me of the ATHF episode where Frylock rebuilt Carl from a surplus of eyeballs...
Why has no one discussed the inherent shielding problems? Or possibly the fan noise?
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In Soviet Russia, old computer cases make a fan out of you!
Anyone thought about about Hannibal Lecter when saw this post?
Man, I've got to get some sleep.
Without any doubt, fans of modcases will love this.
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I wonder if the magnetic field of all these fans would have a negative effect on how long the computer would last and/or how fast it processes... I mean all those electromagnetic motors have to do something unstable to the computer itself.
fans made of YOU!
I have to wonder, plus I'm to lazy to RTFA plus I love hypotheticals, so field this: If all the fans blow outwards wouldn't it create a low presure zone inside the case? Also, if the rate of flow is inverted then a high pressure zone would exist inside the case. I suppose the best way to do it is to have all the fans on one side blow in and the ones on the other side blow air out.
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Now if he just customized some 4 color LED fans he could combine this case with the USB-controlled LED dance floor we saw a while back, he would really have something going on.
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/coolcube/
The above is a link to a guy who made a case for his Mini ITX board out of something like 25 8cm fans plus a few reinforcements.
Obviously, the machine isn't as silent as most of the home projects on that site try to be, but I'm sure the SlashDot crowd can appreciate the workmanship.
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...a volume control?
Bah, a REAL OC'er would use 120mm fans. :P
I know. I was the original poster, you know. The post I was replying to said the following: "what do you mean? are you making some sort of obtuse double-entendre? or are you just blindingly ignorant of the fact that a case with 70 fans would be both physically and ironically cool?" I was telling THIS person (^) to RTFA.
If I built a laptop completely encased in fans, and I mounted them the wrong way so that the laptop starts to fly (battery power), do I get sued the FAA for distracting the pilots with a flying laptop?
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What next? A case made out of dead mice?
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Tie it to a portable air conditioner which has a handle on top.
Imagine if I spilt coffee on this ...
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Am I the only one who read it initially as "PC Case Made Completely of Flan"?
That sounds a lot tastier!
I use my (PII) server to heat my celler. I get more space in the living area of the house, the fan collects some of the dust and spiders and all from the power that used to just run a heater. The samba shares are a free bonus.
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He mentions he will put LEDs in, I think it would be fun to put a strobe in/around it somewhere... should look interesting, stop-motion of all those fans...
> The thing weighs a ton and is as easily moved as a freshly-dead hippopotamus.
As opposed to, say, a month-dead hippopotamus?
How does he cool down the heat generated by all those fans and the power supply powering them?
Owwwww, I just said that?
Somehow this reminds me of my old CPU cooler for a 350mHz AMD K6. It had dual fans, and it was just like living next to an airport - except that the noice from the cooler was constant. I was a (very) poor student at the time and had just blown all my money (and then some) on new hardware, so I hadn't got the cash to buy a semi-low-noice cooler for a month. If I ever develop tinitus, I know why... Since then I have always been shopping low-noice or passive-cooled hardware...
What a joke. If this guy would quit using those crap x86 processors and use quality Apple PPCs that don't give off that much heat...oh wait, nevermind.
Five years ago I was dating a woman with a grandfather in his 80's who'd been a big oil/gas engineering muckymuck in Iran in his younger days. He was an affable, loving guy and never talked about science--mostly about philosophy, his grandchildren, his garden, and his total disgust with the fascists who were hijacking his Muslim faith...
One day he took us aside and in hushed tones in a broken mix of Farsi, English and German asked if we could help him get his invention patented so he could give something back to his wonderful new country (he'd just become a US citizen). He said he'd figured out a way to solve the energy crisis. He then showed us a mock-up of a little car with two fans mounted on the front, and showed us how the fans would turn when he similated speed by blowing a hair dryer at the whole thing. He explained how the spinning fans would charge a battery to help power the car.
It broke my friggin' heart to stand there with my future wife and nod, smiling at her kind-hearted old grandfather who was now in a place where he'd forgotten basic science. Later, when he wasn't around, I tried to explain to her excited family (which includes 2 excellent surgeons who I assumed would have taken physics) how it just wouldn't work. I think my wife was the only one who finally came around and believed me...
Wow!! Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these things!!
In the course of every project, it will become necessary to shoot the scientists and begin production.
This moron takes out the fans bundled with the cases because the CPU fan is enough to cool the case.
What an idiot. We need to find out where we works to make sure we never buy a computer from there.
Efficient small refrigerators are in fact shockingly expensive. I have an Isotherm which would house a PC quite nicely, but cost nearly $1000. And it would be able to remove about 24 watts in continuous running, just enough to cool a small ITX system with no graphics capability.
Reminds me of years ago when we tried to cool a CCD with a Peltier device in a prototype military system and the extra power needed to drive the Peltier meant that the case interior got hotter, not colder.
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why nobody has written about bewoulf clusters of these?
a friend of mine came up with this but decided to go water cooled instead. zip ties do hold the fans together nicely.
If one side/bank of fans quits, do you think it might flip over? Dennis
Land 747's with that case if it was full of LED fans. Hell, it probably sounds like a 747 taking off with all the fans, lol. But its still pretty cool.
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And this one looks a lot better too
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Back about 5 years ago I had a big server case for my pc in college that was almost perfectly square on the sides. Our air conditioning broek so I went out and bought a cheap Kmart box fan to cool things down in my dorm. Once the AC was fixed I noticed that the fan was the exact dimensions as my case. So I took the fan apart and the side off my case and attached the box fan as the new side panel.
:) and didn't take any PSU power. It was the ultimate case fan. I just wish I had taken pictures of it now.
It was dangerous as hell but my temps were always super low, plus it had three speeds
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I was given a computer that made a funny noise.
I looked inside and noticed that one of the fins on the CPU fan was bent.
It was actually under warranty, as the person that gave it to me had an extended warranty, but why would I spend the postage to send the computer in just for a new CPU fan?
I tried to straighten it and it broke off.
I didn't want a wobbly fan on my CPU, so I broke off the opposite fin.
It's worked fine for over a year.
(Slot Athlon 1GHz)
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
Better would be to build the case onto the output of the window A/C unit.
If done correctly you'd have cold, dry, filtered air blown into the case in a volume sufficient that the positive pressure would keep dust out.
(At least it seems to me that it would work that way.)
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
It's not a big deal but shouldn't you give the customer the fans in the case that they paid for? Especially if they just lay around in a box and since it's more hassle to remove them than it is to just connect the leads to power.
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Seriously, is there some reason to want that many loud, moving parts?
Quick! Spread the word!
Does that thing ever just tip right over from the thrust? Oh man, that is so damn funny. Thanks....
It needs a drip pan.
Not me /. jokes, if used correctly.
It's one of the better repetetive
I'm not a fan of that. To some it might be cool but I personally think it sucks. I'm just waiting for my friends to get wind of this story. They'll not exactly be blown away by it. It's a bit ugly and what's the point? Art? If you're going to do art, do it propeller-ly. Sorry.
A couple of weeks ago (or so) someone here on /. suggested having electric motors on the back wheels of a car to drive it, and generators on the front wheels to power it, to make the battery last longer.
Exam 4/C again. Maybe I'll do better this time.
It seems to me that, unless this case was being used in a more sterile than average location, the components inside there would becovered in dust.
In 6 months that thing would be wrapped in a quilt.
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Wow, that thing really sucks AND blows at the same time.
A little neon, and some colored fans would really set it off.
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blows Must make quite a sound too
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I didn't see much in the way of air filters in those pictures. How long before it's just full of dust?
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Wow, is that the G5 PowerBook prototype from 2004?
I must be wakewalking through dreams.
This guy is definitely NOT l337 - that BIOS screenshot was running a version of Phoenix BIOS!! Won't somebody PLEASE think of the children!
there are already people correctly preparing for it.
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I count 72...
and no fan plugged into the System Fan on the mainboard. :)
(not that you'd want to. It tends to not be able to take a fan that draws a lot of power)
http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/coolcube/ I prefer the overall look of this case. Other than the backplate and the lighted rheobus/power/reset switches (which is a very cool touch BTW), this one is made to look like a solid cube of fans. Very nice job stealthing the slimline DVD.
If he only used fans on the front and back, I would think he would achieve much better cooling with fewer fans. Take Apple PowerMac G5 as an example. All air goes from front to back. I remember Sun servers having the same basic airflow design.
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Two potential problems. 1) Power consumption: this might be expensive to run all day. 2) Static electricity: rotating bodies, like fans, generate static electricity. With so many fans, I would wonder if, over time, you would start to see negative effects on the components.
After a year or two, my fans are covered with a layer of crud - dust, oil, cat hair, mouse poop, gnu fur, and that's with filters in place! I wonder what this system would look like after sitting in the corner for a couple years? I've heard of Wall of Noise, and wall of sound, but wall of ventilation?
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Only elderly Koreans are smart enough to avoid (case) fan death.
For the sake of science, he should've directed all the fans inwards.
The resulting concentrated pressure would compress the computer, resulting in shorter traces and better performance.
Consequently, the increased-performance would drive more power to the fans, increasing the pressure even further... sparking a chain-reaction that compressed and imploded the entire computer to critical mass (resulting in a thermonuclear explosion) or a singularity with an event-horizon the size of his bedroom.
Ok maybe not.
Seriously it whould be dangeous to leave anything light-weight near this case, it might end up inside it!
Intel's new thermal solution is now apparent!
There's something inherently dangerous about making a computer case out of spinning blades, but I just can't put my finger on it.
"as most of our customers generally don't go in for all this 'overclocking malarky.'"
Um, OK... overclocking is malarky? I thought it was a viable way to get increased performance for free.
This seems to be widely documented and easy to do by the sheer hundreds fo websites out there that detail how to do it... but if THIS guy says it is malarky, it must be...hmmm.
I'd hate to have him as a neighbor when I fire up the ham receiver. The RFI out of that thing is going to be pretty bad, as the case really provides little shielding. And forget selling something like this commercially, no way he could get FCC certification.
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Gee, a case that actually consumes more power than the computer inside!
J
It sounds like that case is taking in a lot more air than it's putting out, resulting in high pressure and unstable airflow. I would expect those fans to fail pretty frequently.
My new engine doesn't need a fan: http://free.seekon.com/Strongheart10 for all the links. And no pictures of fans. Uhm, none of Gina Lolobridgida either. She used to need fans. Except in that river scene she did. I mean, did not. I can't salvage this post can I? Gina, still stealing the show.
Sorry man. Buddy of mine emailed the story to me, fig'ed I'd give it a shot on /. Honestly, I didn't think for a minute that this story would get posted.
/much/ more interesting stories than this on /. for years; this is the first submission I've made that's actually made it on. Not quite certain why the /. editors consistently deny the really good story submissions, then accept this kinda crap. [shrugs]
I've been trying to get