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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
fartographer@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Really makes you wonder how many revolutionary ideas have fallen through the cracks because of moron management
orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Black pilled by monetary interests.
Semjeza@fedinsfw.app 2 weeks 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.
shelf@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
That’s a shame that sounded really cool.
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
Who knows how many great ideas we have lost because of bad management and capitalism…sigh
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
what is that white box on the bottom connected to
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
dangrousperson@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
I think that would be a spot to connect a GPU to the heatsink as well
MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Passive cooling fins.
Canadian_Cabinet@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
Is your motherboard connected to two giant case-sized heatsinks? I’m struggling to see the big picture here
radix@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Oops, all heatsink
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
Right? I’m like wtf is this setup?
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
the other option is
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only fans