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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.
Says the man with the cardboard shipping box used as a case. I just won't leave it on overnight.
God spoke to me.
Back before I had a couple little kids, I pulled in my dad and his milling machine to make the Fossil computer. It's brass and wood, with a neat fossil as a badge.
It's now my daughter's computer, so it plays more Dora the Explorer than the latest high-end games. When I replace my main computer, I'll gut it and put in fancy new components. The main draw is that it's silent, with the main issue being heat (I have some big, slow fans to help with that).
I call it "Taco Lazy" myself, but one of my friends prefer to call it "Taco Classic." Thoughts?
Anyway, wooden cases are hardly new. Slashdot's had stories on them a couple times. From a quick Googling of this company they appear to be new, as their link was just posted a number of places the last few days.
The modern world can bite my splintery wooden ass!
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Wood is exceptionally bad at this.
Which is why all the cases are liquid-cooled and air cooled. TFA claims they have been designed to maximize airflow and with the liquid-cooling, I would imagine they don't run hot at all. Not to mention silently....
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.
The downgrade is complete! Bite my splintery wooden ass!
As I have pondered doing this, I had concerns about the humidity level of the wood going up and down as the case got hot, then cold, then hot again. I wondered if this would eventually crack or split the wood. What is the longevity? Is his choice of woods helpful in this regard? My chioce would have been ceder, what a great smelling computer, but it is very prone to splitting, and covering that wood on both sides with laquer would be pointless if you wanted to enjoy the smell. Maybe my fears were unfounded.....
I once built a wooden computer. It had a wooden psu, a wooden HD, wooden everything.
It wooden work!
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I guess it wouldn't be a good idea to get one for my Dell laptop.
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.
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Of course it also includes a trial of WinRAR, but it is progress.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.