Yes. And carefully designed "extreme" air cooling solutions can outperform average water cooling solutions.
"Monolith" will for me always conjure up "2001: A Space Odyssey". I want to work out a wood monolith mini-ITX case design one can assemble from parts custom fabricated from drawer.com and ponoko.com, with an hdplex.com power supply, and all airflow pulled through an Noctua NH-C14S cpu cooler. With noise-isolated fans the width of the case, the entire case becomes a turbo charger for the cpu cooler.
(For compute servers I don't need separate graphics cards.)
Maybe if the demo unit had better cable management. Open air frames definitely have a market, so it has some potential. But yeah, it's not for me either.
Best of luck for the campaign. Judging by how much dust I regularly have to clean from my case meshes (we have a dog and clothes are often hanging to dry in my office) I would probably never buy an open case but they look kinda neat. Lookwise I would prefer the xproto but it's always nice to see alternatives. :)
Why go for MicroITX motherboard in a case that has effectively unlimited dimensions otherwise? I buy small motherboards so I can stuff them into teensy cases that take up no space. What’s the motivation for micro with a case that’s macro?
In a house of two women with long hair, I highly doubt my GPU could survive me and my girlfriend over two weeks.
Looks absolutely sleek, but if it had a base and a glass and aluminum cloche-style cover it'd be more practical. Open air just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
You can use https://squoosh.app for easy and effective image compression. Sometimes I can shave off 80-90% of the size without a noticeable difference in image quality.
I like that design too. An advantage of this design is it can remain vertical with a heavy CPU heatsink (the XTIA needs to be laid down). I also suspect the graphics card will be cooler with more airspace (I intend to put this hypothesis to the test soon). It's also not clear if they support attaching hard drives? And lastly, I anticipate this one will be cheaper all things considered (e.g. not requiring an SFX power supply) and US-made.
> What if you stop putting your components in a box
... and thus remove the protective casing and allowing every possible kind of foreign matter to intrude the components, having it take direct impacts if I accidentally hit my elbow on it, take possible water damage, not be able to have cats around it any more and my girlfriends hair being sucked into the CPU cooler?
looks cool but it would attract dust and hair + it would be a heater, don't need a heater in summer. Maybe ok for winter but not summer. And I bet it would be loud with all the open air fans.
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[ 23.9 ms ] story [ 1716 ms ] threadThese designs are neat but far from a new idea.
"Monolith" will for me always conjure up "2001: A Space Odyssey". I want to work out a wood monolith mini-ITX case design one can assemble from parts custom fabricated from drawer.com and ponoko.com, with an hdplex.com power supply, and all airflow pulled through an Noctua NH-C14S cpu cooler. With noise-isolated fans the width of the case, the entire case becomes a turbo charger for the cpu cooler.
(For compute servers I don't need separate graphics cards.)
I personally find this messy and not at all stylish. I would also be constantly fighting tumbleweeds of golden retriever hair clogging everything up.
I wish them the best of luck.
I kid. But honestly my quasi-passively cooled setup has been super easy to clean.
Looks absolutely sleek, but if it had a base and a glass and aluminum cloche-style cover it'd be more practical. Open air just seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
1) It has a glass panel on the largest side side, but is open on the other sides. This prevents a lot of obvious failure cases.
2) It is wall mounted. This keeps it off the floor and away from associated detritus.
Case looks really cool though. Best of luck!
... and thus remove the protective casing and allowing every possible kind of foreign matter to intrude the components, having it take direct impacts if I accidentally hit my elbow on it, take possible water damage, not be able to have cats around it any more and my girlfriends hair being sucked into the CPU cooler?
No thank you