begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 07:26:45PM -0700: > Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade wrote: [snip] > >I very purposefully purchased a fan-less graphics card with a big fat > >heatsink on it. While doing a physical inspection of the system > >during diagnosis, I noticed there was no dust on any of the internal > >components, just on the intake grills and the fans themselves. > > Does anyone make a case that does not pull air in from the outside? > This is the source of most of the dust.
Yes. A friend of mine has built a media-center box that uses a fanless case -- the sides of the case are heatsinks. You have to pick a cpu/mobo that can run fanless, so you're not going to get the latest uber-hyper-ultra-gee-whiz configuration. (But hey, I think we should rate all CPUs at their fan- and heat-sink- less speeds, as well as their (overclocked) cooled speeds.) [snip] -- It's all a matter of tradeoffs. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
