The Beautiful Machine

fabiensanglard.net

20 points·janvdberg··9 comments

I love the concept of passive cooling / no moving parts, but I also like seeing the insides of electronics (my home build has a clear panel and white LEDs). Builds like this make me wish transparent aluminum was a real thing.

It is I believe, but I haven't seen many applications. It's marketed under the name ALON iirc.

I don't believe they can make big pieces though.

That’s pretty cool! Unfortunately its actually a ceramic with only around 5% the thermal conductivity of straight aluminum so it wouldn’t work for this. Most transparent materials tend to be thermal insulators afaik.

Not sure if OP is the builder, but a question. How did you/he thermally couple the cpu and gpu dies to the case? Is it really just air?

EDIT: Saw the LH6 heat pipes. That's super neat!

You have two options.

1 - You can use a thermal pad which is not recommended by the vendor.

2 - You can used thermal past which is the option I went wish. So far it is working well. Obviously not practical if you plan on changing parts often but I don't forecast doing this.

Passive cooling is great but I am only at nuc level. Surprise to see it might work with 1050 ...

I am unsure how much I can trust Geeks3D Furmark GPU load generation. I feel like it is probably heavier than actual game usage. So far it is holding up!

Oh that really looks awesome! Makes me wish I had a need for a desktop PC at home :(

Extra incentive: A desktop PC with a standing desk is great way to remaining a good posture.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com