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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. Cool! by Punchinello · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now that's cool.

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    1. Re:Cool! by suso · · Score: 5, Funny

      And installing it was a breeze.

    2. Re:Cool! by Porkbreath · · Score: 5, Funny

      Eh. Just another PC fanboy.

    3. Re:Cool! by Gadgetfreak · · Score: 5, Funny

      I don't know why there are so many fans of bad puns on Slashdot.

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    4. Re:Cool! by vought · · Score: 4, Funny

      I wonder what will happen when overclockers get wind of this.

    5. Re:Cool! by MarkRose · · Score: 5, Funny

      And I don't know why so many moderators blow their points on them.

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    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:Cool! by Infinityis · · Score: 5, Funny

      Cause it's the cool thing to do, that's why.

      Anyone else who thinks otherwise should be pun-ished. Case closed.

    8. Re:Cool! by snorklewacker · · Score: 4, Funny

      I think most of the jokes just whoosh right over you.

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    9. Re:Cool! by HardCase · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Nah, the posts just blow.

    10. Re:Cool! by jerde · · Score: 3, Funny

      What we need are some new moderators. Now THAT would be a breath of fresh air!

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    11. Re:Cool! by syynnapse · · Score: 3, Funny

      you all need to chill out.

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    12. Re:Cool! by unitron · · Score: 5, Funny

      He should have made it all intake except for the bottom and the bottom all exhaust. Custom case and hovercraft in one.

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    13. Re:Cool! by asliarun · · Score: 3, Funny

      True, with this barrage of puns, the old moderators should be exhausted by now.

      Considering that this is a case-mod, they're also appropriately named mod-raters.

    14. Re:Cool! by DocB · · Score: 4, Funny

      Unless you get the polarity wrong on those puppies -- then it would really suck.

  2. First Thought by presidentbeef · · Score: 4, Funny

    "They are making a case out of computer enthusiasts? Whoa! Hardcore!"

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  3. 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.

  4. He's gonna need all those fans... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    To keep his server from melting during the slashdotting.

    As an aside, that thing has to be LOUD AS HELL!

    1. Re:He's gonna need all those fans... by networkBoy · · Score: 3, Funny

      Didn't help.
      fans must have fanned the flames very well though.
      -nB

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    2. Re:He's gonna need all those fans... by mrjb · · Score: 5, Interesting

      On the contrary. Want a quieter case? Use a fan with bigger blades. Like that, more air can be moved with lower rotational speed and noise will be reduced. With a case built entirely of fans, I imagine each fan only needs to rotate very slowly for good ventilation. This thing has the potential to be extremely quiet!

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  5. 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

  6. Obligatory misreading by ilyag · · Score: 4, Funny

    Imagine: a Mac with a case made entirely of Apple fans, all in an Apple t-shirt and beaming smiles.

    1. Re:Obligatory misreading by DashEvil · · Score: 4, Funny

      Now THAT is thinking different!

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  7. Next! by DoorFrame · · Score: 4, Funny

    Next thing we need is a fan made entirely of old computer cases!

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    1. Re:Next! by RoadkillBunny · · Score: 5, Funny

      Next thing we need is a fan made entirely of old computer cases!
      You gotta move to soviet russia for that.

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  8. Nice Case by Senjutsu · · Score: 5, Funny

    - What?

    I SAID, "NICE CASE!"

    - WHAT??

    Oh forget it.

    - WHAT?!

    Worst. Idea. Ever.

  9. I present Teh ICEboX! by Nomihn0 · · Score: 3, Funny

    I pity the fool who builds his/her case out of ice.

  10. Jokes are funnier... by heatdeath · · Score: 5, Funny

    if you repeat them!

    WHAT?

    Jokes are funnier if you repeat them!

    What?

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  11. Wow. by Robotech_Master · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wanna join this guy's fan club.

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    1. Re:Wow. by Mulletproof · · Score: 3, Funny

      Why is that? You can tell by the webpage that this guy is a blowhard.

      Uhg, somebody shoot us all and get it over with :p

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  12. Finally ... by kitzilla · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... a computer case my kids won't touch. All except Stumpy. He'll mess with anything.

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  13. This was IBM's Quad 3 GHz G5 Case Design by Nova+Express · · Score: 4, Funny
    Strangely enough, shortly after they showed this to Steve Hobs, Apple decided to switch to Intel...

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  14. I wonder by BCW2 · · Score: 4, Funny

    If he laid it on it's right side, would it hover?

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    1. Re:I wonder by MarkRose · · Score: 4, Funny

      And if he were to attach a bag to it, would it Hoover?

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  15. That's the.... by Dunbal · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's the last time the cat is sleeping on the CPU case...meeeeeeeoooosplsplsplsplsplspl ewwwwwww

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    1. Re:That's the.... by Fallon · · Score: 4, Funny
      That's the last time the cat is sleeping on the CPU case...meeeeeeeoooosplsplsplsplsplspl ewwwwwww


      That does't stop our cat... at least once a week we hear this Bzzzzzt sound as she stuffs her paw into the power supply fan. Apparently she thinks it's entertaining.
  16. Ah yes by messiah_b · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Computer Case of toe and finger removal +5

  17. Fragile by MavenW · · Score: 5, Interesting

    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.

  18. Personally... by loteck · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think it blows.

  19. Cool, but stupid by Gollum2001 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    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. ;-)

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  20. Airflow is backwards: by photon317 · · Score: 4, Insightful


    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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  21. Cluster by McGiraf · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine a beoWHOOOOoooOOOSH ............

  22. Noise by Trogre · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  23. IT HOVERS! by cybercomm · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  24. 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.

  25. Let's go to Fry's by Slur · · Score: 5, Funny

    I used to be a big fan of the case section. Now I'll have to remember to case the fan section.

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