[ale] fried innards -- final report

[Scott Castaline]

Aww heck just get a refrigerator. You have plenty of room to setup more
than 12 MoBos, PSUs, HDDs. You don't really need fans as refrigerators
have their own fans/blowers to circulate the air inside. Now you can
even go hog wild and put a keg in the veggie bin, run a tap out the
door. Now you will want a unit that gives outside access to the ice made
by the ice maker. Now you have the ultimate Tap 'A' Keg computer.



On 08/08/2013 06:23 PM, Jim Kinney wrote:
> AH! You need to rethink the "fan as case" model and go straight to the
> "AC duct as case" model.
> 
> Take a 15k BTU window unit. Add some sheet metal to the cold air output
> to run it right over all the cpus you have. Add a second bit of sheet
> metal to join the big front AC return to the hot side of the PC/ductwork
> monolith.
> 
> With some decent measuring and placement of ribs, you can mount 8-12
> motherboards in a decent size chunk of rigid duct. Add some cutout to
> place the back panel shield and some fancy power supply work and you've
> got your own cluster!
> 
> Then the spouse finds out what's making all the noise...
> 
> 
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Alex Carver <agcarver+ale at acarver.net
> <mailto:agcarver+ale at acarver.net>> wrote:
> 
>     On 8/8/2013 13:37, Jim Kinney wrote:
> 
>         computer cases are made of fans and cable ties :-)
> 
> 
>     Ohhhhh!  Then I have tons of those. :)
> 
>     I gave up on cases once I decided I'd be using 100-200mm fans for
>     cooling to keep noise under control.  :)  Next step is a central
>     exhaust system for the heat.  I'm close, already have all the fans
>     and ductwork, just need to piece it together.
> 
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