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Beautiful Wooden PC Cases
mrbill submitted linkage to a site offering to sell what appear to be very beautiful wood PC cases combining wood, glass and silicon into something a hell of a lot prettier than that beige box. Something tells me these wouldn't win the recent Intel sexy case contest, but they sure are sharp.
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...Rob
The American Dream isn't an SUV and a house in the suburbs; it's Don't Tread On Me.
A tall tower box is "Well appointed from $6635 in Maple"
There is also a media box selling for $35,000. It's nice work, but I think the guy overestimates the financial worth of his craft.
These are for the CEO's of the world who would pay $6K for the chance to stand out from the crowd of beige boxes, black laptops and under-powered tablets.
It would be a status symbol. Nothing else.
Until a couple of decades ago, it was very common for televisions to have elaborate wooden cases. My grandmother had one; when she upgraded to color we got her old set for the basement playroom.
Old-style radios also came in elaborate wooden cases.
These olde beasts had vacuum tubes, which used high voltage and put off substantial amounts of heat. They didn't have (or need) cooling fans.
Worries about fire are overblown. Or maybe overheated? Ehhh, sorry.
Stefan
This is about as bad as the misconception that aluminum cases offer better cooling than steel cases. The simple fact is that moving air is what moves the heat out of the system, and very little, if any heat is actually transferred to and radiated by the case.
The only thing a computer case is conducting is sound, the heat is removed by air convection(or alternatively water convection can do most, but not all of the work), that's why wood or acrylic are actually more efficient materials for a case to be made out of in terms of cooling per noise, see: http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?p=1 00913#100913
The claim that a case needs to be made out of a conductive material is basically a hoax perpetuated to sell aluminum cases.
Building a case out of a garbage can would be more appropriate given the very limited lifespan of the average PC.
Seriously, computer cases haven't depended on convection since the freakin' 80s when a case-fan was someone who really liked William Gibsons books.
The manufacturers may claim a lot of booyah like "aluminium is better for cooling" and all that jazz, but it's just hot air (no pun intended). Cases these days depend on airflow, not convection from the cases material. Hence, it doesn't matter at all whether the case is made of aluminium, wood, solid steel or pink plastic.
I enjoy large posteriors and I cannot prevaricate.