Would a slow small fan still make a huge difference to the cooling here? Completely passive cooling seems like something that would only make sense in very specific professional environments (like needing an ultra low sound floor in an audiology chamber or recording studio).
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BCsven@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Till it all gets to temp then it won’t do much. It needs some more surface area to covect heat better.
With enough fins you don’t need fans.
cRazi_man@europe.pub 14 hours ago
fartographer@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
I had a roommate who was getting his doctorate in chemical engineering, specifically focused on graphene. He was able to demonstrate how doping the materials in a heat sink to alter their ability to “release” heat, and then organizing these intentional hotspots along the length of the fins, you could create an active airflow using a stationary object.
But then his lab manager killed his grant and instead put him on a project partnered with BMW to make their bumpers more marketable.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Really makes you wonder how many revolutionary ideas have fallen through the cracks because of moron management
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 1 hour ago
Many folks in higher education in the UK have been bemoaning a generation of genii lost to business and the City who put their talents and creativity to the good of making profit rather than inventing and humanity.
Many more have their funding and direction tilted to capital, too.
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 hours ago
Black pilled by monetary interests.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 9 hours ago
Who knows how many great ideas we have lost because of bad management and capitalism…sigh
shelf@piefed.social 12 hours ago
That’s a shame that sounded really cool.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
The case has an opening for a vertical fan but it is not needed unless you do heavy gaming and run a high end GPU. For video rendering and other tasks the fins are rated to keep it at a decent temp.
I have good hearing, and a HDD spinning or even a “silent” fan is still audible droning noise to me.
This build is totally silent. The PSU is over-rated on purpose because it has a below 30% max draw mode that is fanless.
So this case makes 0 noise.
Gork@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
With big enough copper block it might not matter (like the size of a house, but of the good quality stuff not that shit Ea-Nasir sells).
rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 13 hours ago
what is that white box on the bottom connected to
dangrousperson@feddit.org 10 hours ago
I think that would be a spot to connect a GPU to the heatsink as well
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 11 hours ago
Passive cooling fins.
BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
The empty copper block is for a GPU, but I’m running this primarily as a silent server so I didn’t bother with the GPU since it has integrated Graphics.
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
Is your motherboard connected to two giant case-sized heatsinks? I’m struggling to see the big picture here
radix@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Oops, all heatsink
BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
Its a monsterlabo case, they made fanless heatsink systems…I think they may have gone out of business a few years back because a silent case is very niche.
Syndication@lemmy.today 14 hours ago
Right? I’m like wtf is this setup?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 10 hours ago
It’s a monsterlabo case. They used to make a few models that were all heatsink so you didn’t need fans. I think they might have gone out of business because their website has no stock left for ordering, etc. Too niche a product to sustain sales probably.
Zachariah@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
the other option is
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only fans