News Haxx teases passively-cooled ATX midi-tower

I think they should have shown a photo of the finished design.

80w? Yeah... ok. I will make sure I don't overclock much then.

 

I get the impression the pictures are the finished design.

 

I think it's like an EA game... Didn't have time to finish it but they released it anyway hoping no one would notice.

 

how much

 

If it can cool passively then adding a few fans should have great results. I'd love to see a review of this BT !

 

Not necessarily. The reason for it's design is so ambient air coming from any direction will help cool off the system. Putting a fan in there would obviously cool things off better but it'd be less effective than standard towers (that are laid out properly), where you want to have a constant path of air flow. Having a good heatsink and tower with good air flow *can* make the difference between needing to water cool your CPU and not. Having holes everywhere like this tower disrupts good air flow.

Personally, I think getting a plain motherboard tray with a car radiator might be a more effective option than this tower.

 

I lol'd, a car radiator is definitely cheap enough to get hold of ! I think the fans on most of them should be 12v too ! A great idea for a future mod I reckon, cheers man

 

I've been toying with this idea for a while, so it's good to see someone try it. Do they say anything about how they're going to get the heat from the CPU to the case? Some sort of heat pipe arrangement?

 

Thermalright had a heatsink case on show during computex 2007, but im guessing it never made it past the prototype stage

 

It's already been done, I saw an episode of dl.tv where they hooked up a standard water block to the cpu and then converted the pipes to fit a car radiator and fan and it cooled the same as it's smaller and by far quieter pc component brethren

 

lol gee, I wonder why. I'm sure that's ridiculously expensive and heavy.