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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. 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

  3. 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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  4. 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.