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I use a FT05 case for one of my desktops; besides being excellent thermally, having the motherboard rotated 90° with the rear i/o facing upwards is nice (also n

I use a FT05 case for one of my desktops; besides being excellent thermally, having the motherboard rotated 90° with the rear i/o facing upwards is nice (also no gpu sag).

CarVac 7y ago
I built a custom case with a rotated motherboard like this, with a huge furnace filter on the intake and 8 fans (well in excess of what's needed for cooling) to clean my room air.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  People like you are why hackers/engineers have a reputation. Bravo:)
- solstice 7y ago
  Pics please
  - CarVac 7y ago
    Very old photos; I've replaced all the hardware you see except the SSD, wi-fi card, and the power supply. https://imgur.com/a/u1Ti7 https://imgur.com/a/u1Ti7
    - solstice 7y ago
      Very cool, thank you! How's the noise after you switched the fans?
      - CarVac 7y ago
        I switched first to Gentle Typhoons, then the new Noctua NF-A12×25. The cheap-o original fans were quiet at low speed but hardly moved any air, and at high speed they made tons of wind noise; I think the airfoils were stalling or something. The Gentle Typhoons were reasonably wind-noise quiet even at high speed, but made a high-pitched hissing from the bearings at all speeds, and a groaning rumble from the motors at low speed. The Noctuas are much quieter at 1000 rpm, almost inaudible relative to the 4 hard drives, and make fairly innocuous white noise at high speed.
- derefr 7y ago
  Or, to put that another way, you built an air purifier, and then embedded a computer into it.
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
Since we’re on the topic of computer hacks, I turned off the heat in my room and farmed litecoin for a winter with my PC. My room was warm and toasty, and I sold the litecoin and bought a new video card! I also currently have my home server in a closet with the seeds I’m starting so the soil stays around 80 degrees (f).

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I use a FT05 case for one of my desktops; besides being excellent thermally, having the motherboard rotated 90° with the rear i/o facing upwards is nice (also n

by frostburg 7y ago

I use a FT05 case for one of my desktops; besides being excellent thermally, having the motherboard rotated 90° with the rear i/o facing upwards is nice (also no gpu sag).

CarVac 7y ago
I built a custom case with a rotated motherboard like this, with a huge furnace filter on the intake and 8 fans (well in excess of what's needed for cooling) to clean my room air.
- yjftsjthsd-h 7y ago
  People like you are why hackers/engineers have a reputation. Bravo:)
- solstice 7y ago
  Pics please
  - CarVac 7y ago
    Very old photos; I've replaced all the hardware you see except the SSD, wi-fi card, and the power supply. https://imgur.com/a/u1Ti7 https://imgur.com/a/u1Ti7
    - solstice 7y ago
      Very cool, thank you! How's the noise after you switched the fans?
      - CarVac 7y ago
        I switched first to Gentle Typhoons, then the new Noctua NF-A12×25. The cheap-o original fans were quiet at low speed but hardly moved any air, and at high speed they made tons of wind noise; I think the airfoils were stalling or something. The Gentle Typhoons were reasonably wind-noise quiet even at high speed, but made a high-pitched hissing from the bearings at all speeds, and a groaning rumble from the motors at low speed. The Noctuas are much quieter at 1000 rpm, almost inaudible relative to the 4 hard drives, and make fairly innocuous white noise at high speed.
- derefr 7y ago
  Or, to put that another way, you built an air purifier, and then embedded a computer into it.
3fe9a03ccd14ca5 7y ago
Since we’re on the topic of computer hacks, I turned off the heat in my room and farmed litecoin for a winter with my PC. My room was warm and toasty, and I sold the litecoin and bought a new video card! I also currently have my home server in a closet with the seeds I’m starting so the soil stays around 80 degrees (f).