Project: Passive Something bit different. When watercooling is not silent enough. In my opinion Willek pulled this one off nicely but like he states, overall looks was not the main design feature.
Now I've taken a look at it and I have some things to say. For the PSU I would just desolder the regulators and put them on the big heatsink. This was done by many people and it works just fine. Putting some big fans (120mm x 38mm or bigger) at a very low voltage would help a lot and wouldn't add noise. I know that closing that is going to kill it, but I would protect the components with a mesh all around. PS: I never liked the shower hose idea.
I'd say he was on the right track, the last picture shows the potential but I think that's the best angle and other shots of the case wouldn't be as appealing.
I saw that rig in action on Assembly 2007 and believe me, it really stood from the crowd! I did prefer the initial design more though.. I just like the looks of aluminum and I have this weird fixation to large heatsinks
On some power supplies, the internal heatsinks have as much as a 300 volt potential. You have to be very careful what you connect to what, even if you can't imagine why a part would carry voltage.
The reason is so you can bolt the semiconductor tab straight to the sink, no insulating pad, giving better heat transfer allowing a smaller sink. The tab is often connected to the collector/drain of the semi, again for maximum heat transfer.
So after a lan party you have to wait a few minutes for it to cool down before picking it up again -Noswal
Zalman made a passive case already a couple of years back, BUT the price tag was just crazy and it was only compatible with a couple of motherboards. Also the PSU was propietary 400 W unit that couldn't be changed. I think such specialized cases just can't be series produced.
If you wanted to be really cool you could add an ion cooler to somewhere on there (Idk where =] ) that'd be some extra cooling and Danger =D
