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The rear fan appears to be shared with the CPU fan. This is actually not a bad design in my opinion, many Dell OptiPlexes from around 2002-2009 were built with
by chendragon 8y ago
The rear fan appears to be shared with the CPU fan. This is actually not a bad design in my opinion, many Dell OptiPlexes from around 2002-2009 were built with a similar design. By putting the fan farther from the grille, they can reduce the effects of noise from the blades passing by the stationary grill.
The fan appears to point inwards, which seems to make more sense for BTX Dells with the fan at the bottom than this with the fan on top.
The site mentions the power supplies are 80plus certified or something with (iirc) 90% efficiency or so.
Quality of the case wise it does look like quite some effort was put into it, given the top appears to be one piece and it certainly looks harder to manufacture than a standard PC case.
With that said, as much as it is nice, I think it's just more of a standard PC with a nice case.
- wyclif 8y agoI'm curious about how much fan noise there really is. They talk about the Thelio looking nice enough to live on the desktop, but IMO the reason people put their Linux box under their desk isn't necessarily because it's ugly: it's to mitigate the fan noise. I don't care much about walnut or maple; I just want quiet fans.