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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. Re:Cool! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    isn't this a dupe? i recall reading this somewhere before... maybe it was another website.

  2. /.'ed site is in New Zealand by Barbarian · · Score: 0, Troll

    The sheep must be running really fast on the treadmill right now to supply enough power for the server.

  3. Re:This has been done before. by Dunbal · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is slashdot, did you really expect anything original? In fact, the whole thing is probably a dupe :)

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  4. It sucks. by Matt+Clare · · Score: 0, Troll

    I don't know why, but that's just what you say when something impressive is linked to /.

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  5. DON'T MOD UP PARENT OR GRANDPARENT by Microlith · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think the subjects speak for themselves :)