On 10/5/07, Gregory K. Ruiz-Ade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Oct 4, 2007, at 7:26 PM, Ralph Shumaker wrote:
>
> > Does anyone make a case that does not pull air in from the
> > outside? This is the source of most of the dust.
>
> There are a number of water-cooled cases designed specifically to do
> something close to this, but most of them still rely on some degree
> of air flow to cool other components that the water system doesn't
> handle (hard drives and motherboard components, typically).
>
> I'd love to design/build a case that is primarily liquid-cooled, with
> only a single intake and exhaust fan for the main chassis volume,
> complete with dust filters, to handle ambient cooling. All the other
> airflow would be for the heat exchanger (radiator), which would
> itself have dust filters on the intake.
>
> Granted, the case would likely cost me several hundred dollars to
> build...
One notes with some interest on the 50th anniversary of Sputnik that
it had a fan inside the sealed sphere, to circulate the internal
atmosphere and keep temperatures more uniform. No outside air flow.
carl
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