Quiet Cooling With a Copper Foam Heatsink

Posted by Soulskill on Wednesday July 30, 2014 @05:13AM from the doubles-as-a-dish-scraper dept.

Zothecula writes: The Silent Power PC is claimed to be the first high-end PC able to ditch noisy electric fans in favor of fully passive cooling. In place of a conventional fan, the unit uses an open-air metal foam heatsink that boasts an enormous surface area thanks to the open-weave copper filaments of which it's composed. The Silent Power creators claim that the circulation of air through the foam is so efficient in dissipating heat that the exterior surface temperature never rises above 50 C (122 F) in normal use.

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Kickstarter warning by Anonymous Coward · 2014-07-30 05:27 · Score: 5, Informative

This is not a real product. It's just being crowdfunded. The only evidence that it works is a claim by the creators that "the exterior surface temperature never rises above 50 C (122 F) in normal use", without specifying what "normal use" is.
It might work and if so, great! I can't trust this article at this moment, however.