Show HN: Monolith – A stylish and functional computer frame

Re:Show HN: Monolith – A stylish and functional computer frame by amelius on Sunday May 22, 2022 @12:28PM (#31469916)

Doesn't a closed design produce more airflow around hot areas, when carefully designed?

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Re:Show HN: Monolith – A stylish and functional computer frame by Syzygies on Sunday May 22, 2022 @01:03PM (#31470335)

Yes. And carefully designed "extreme" air cooling solutions can outperform average water cooling solutions.

"Monolith" will for me always conjure up "2001: A Space Odyssey". I want to work out a wood monolith mini-ITX case design one can assemble from parts custom fabricated from drawer.com and ponoko.com, with an hdplex.com power supply, and all airflow pulled through an Noctua NH-C14S cpu cooler. With noise-isolated fans the width of the case, the entire case becomes a turbo charger for the cpu cooler.

(For compute servers I don't need separate graphics cards.)

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Re:Show HN: Monolith – A stylish and functional computer frame by yeahgoodok on Sunday May 22, 2022 @01:39PM (#31470724)

Not without substantial noise, which is what drove me to become open-air pilled.

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