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This is pretty hardcore

jamsomito said:
Looks nice on the surface, but an overheating nightmare inside.
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Can't say I disagree, the builder even says it gets up to 85C under sustained load. However, I'm more focused on the insanity of literally scraping off surface mount components from the mobo in an effort to reduce power consumption.
 
All I can see that they forgot is a fire extinguisher. That is a fire nightmare waiting to happen.
 
As noted it needs a fire extinguisher add on. If he would have added some fans under it. It would have been decent though. Perhaps just plexi bottom with holes and some fans mounted in it. They don't have to move mass amount of air but just enough to keep air flowing.

Edit: Maybe Cedar wood? It smells pretty good once it starts heating up.
 
Issues with this guy's "Case design" notwithstanding, I think the rest of what he did was pretty interesting.
 
Wood's autoignition temperature is like 300C. Your CPU (nor any of the parts) is not going to be hitting anywhere near the temperatures required to actually cause a fire hazard. In fact I think he's pretty much relying on the wood to dissipate some of the heat because he knows it's not anywhere near enough to ignite it. Actually, it wouldn't even ignite paper. And if he placed a small aluminum layer or something in between the CPU and the wood, it would be even better as it would dissipate the heat across the wood thus causing much less heat build up in one area (he might have already done this). Anyway this guy is quite good with this stuff. Actually taking off surface components and creating his own sound card off to the side (I think, I had to use google translate)? Pretty amazing stuff. I don't have anywhere near the patience or the ability to concentrate to pull something like this off.

Also I think 85C while stress testing is fine for these CPU's. 50C is the standard temp. That's fine. Pretty amazing thing he created here. Only real issue is if some of his custom wiring shorts or something. I'm sure many of us have had that lab course where you accidentally shorted in parallel with a resistor and had a ridiculous amount of current running through it, which caused it to start smoking. Not sure what the actual temperature of it was at the time though. Might still not be anywhere near enough to actually ignite wood. I mean this thing doesn't have that many watts running through it to begin with (as the author likes to point out). Not too many joules/s being dissipated.
 
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