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PC Case Made Completely of Fans

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the keeping-cool-while-looking-it dept.

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..."

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  1. Ho hum. by kryogen1x · · Score: 5, Informative

    Been there, done that.

    1. Re:Ho hum. by mnbjhguyt · · Score: 4, Informative

      This one is another approach.

  2. Its time to let go... by ZiakII · · Score: 1, Informative

    Its time to let go of fans and switch to a beter concept? Water cooling perhaps?

  3. Re:Full Article Text (due to near /.ing at 0 comme by Refrozen · · Score: 3, Informative

    Err, wow.

    AND the cached link: the cached link

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    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Re:Cool! by Spetiam · · Score: 2, Informative

    Unless he neglected to make some of them exhaust fans. :)

    I mean, he does say that his setup doesn't really cool things down...

  6. Re:Cool! by secolactico · · Score: 3, Informative

    Unless he neglected to make some of them exhaust fans. :)

    I mean, he does say that his setup doesn't really cool things down...

    He also said that air enters in one side and exits the other. Same for top and bottom.

    Now, I won't tell you to RTFA because: a. You obviously did and b. I also skimmed it. It was pure luck that I read that particular part of the text.

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  7. Re:Intent by cbiltcliffe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Quickly moving air is lower pressure (read: vaccuum) than slow moving air.
    That's how planes fly. The top of the wing is curved, the bottom straight, so the air going over the top of the wing moves further, at a higher speed, than the air at the bottom. Hence, uplift.

    Fast air moving by your nose/mouth would therefore suck the breath out of you. Have you ever been outside in a really strong wind, and had difficulty catching your breath? That's the effect that the GP was talking about.

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  8. Re:Simply Fan-tastic by Kid+Zero · · Score: 5, Informative

    Found it! It was from 2000, five years ago. Geez!

    http://www.envador.com/cases/PVCII/

    PVC and a 18" box fan. Wow.

    I was wrong above, only one fan but considering I've kept that image in my head for five years now, that's not bad.

  9. Re:Haven't seen it yet so.... by dotgain · · Score: 2, Informative

    You haven't seen a "welcome overlords" post yet because everybody is sick of them now. Everybody.

  10. Re:Cool! by Renegrade · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually, the motherboard runs at room temperature in that setup, he said (22-24c). Also, the CPU is running a stock heat sink/fan combo, which would be the limiting factor for getting heat out of the processor core.

    I have to say that I find that leaving the side off a case will usually bring the temperature down to a level that's equivalent to the fan-case anyhow. My current ambient temperature is 27C and the motherboard is running 30C (just 3C higher). Processor is running 47C, which isn't bad for AMD with stock cooling kit. (Used to run about 36C and 68C with the case side on)

  11. Re:Finally ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    thats probably the funniest post ive read in a year i was on the floor of the cube farm PEEING MYSELF