[X-bit Labs] Falcon Northwest Introduces Enthusiast-Class Mini-ITX System. - Page 3

I've been looking at systems like these for a long time. Now I just want to see just cases for things like this wtihout the whole system already installed. We have all the parts, except for the power supply maybe. Someone just needs to standardize this form factor where the dual slot GPU is on it's side for space saving. Such a system would make for an excellent HTPC being console sized and all.

Its just a riser card.

http://www.soarland.com/PCI-X_1U_Server_64-Bit_Single_Slot_Right_Angle_Riser_Card_-product-251.html

Been around forever, nothing to standardize.

However the 680 in this box looks modified.

Also google ITX case. Probably 80% of the ones you find will be slim cases like this one. This one isn't even impressive really.

This PC would be awesome for a BYOC lan party! but then they had to put the granite slab! . couldnt they just keep the rig on its side? or would that mess up the water cooling?

Very very sexy indeed.

WFT that logo? All the rest looks great, but that logo is ruining it for me

Meanwhile my system weighs about 35 kilos, is huge, and less powerful.

Probably cooler though, lol.

I'm sure the PC won't come with a granite slab and the water cooling was an all-in-one kit so I don't think that would be affected by orientation either.

That fan isn't going to be moving much air so what air it does move is going to be hot. You want hot air pumped into your system? No thanks. You're much better off drawing cooler air in from the bottom and pumping hot air out as soon as you can. Also what's the air already been heated by? Nothing is in the path from the bottom the the case.



For example, GPU stock coolers, if the coolers just blew all the hot air in to your case, you would rapidly end up with a hot case. Not cool.

And by the way, I'm very aware of convection and thermodynamics.

An example.

I was using an Antec Kuhler 920 which I had been given for testing. I was using an Antec SOLO II case. The front low speed fan was intaking cool air over my 5 hard drives. My SuperFlower PSU doesn't start it's fan until it's really hot so little air movement there. With my CPU overclocked to 4.3GHz, the 920 pumps out some really warm air with the fans on the silent setting.

About 10 minutes into some gaming my GPU fan is really going because it's intaking mostly hot air and the PSU fan is running. I realise the issue and swap the radiator fans.

After the fix, the PSU fan never came on and the GPU stayed cool and quiet, as it should be.

I have no idea why you would ever say that radiators should be mounted as intakes. Any heat produced should be exhausted out of the case so the inside of the case stays cool. This is why everyone loves reference coolers that exhaust heat out of your case, it just makes sense.

You're nuts.
Edited by Willhemmens - 6/27/12 at 10:03am

The point is that cool air is being pulled through the radiator when set up as an intake. If you set it as exhaust in an environment where the internal air is extremely warm you will have higher temps because of the lower delta between intake air and water temp in the radiator.

I understand what you are saying, you don't want to keep a bunch of heat in your case.