[HN Gopher] Show HN: Monolith - A stylish and functional compute...
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Show HN: Monolith - A stylish and functional computer frame
Author : yeahgoodok
Score : 31 points
Date : 2022-05-22 15:13 UTC (7 hours ago)
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| robin_reala wrote:
| Your assembly page is 64Mb, of which 63.7Mb is from images. You
| might want to look at scaling them down if your server starts
| struggling.
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| I know lol. I wanted to keep the images high-res so you can
| zoom in and see what's going on. GitHub hasn't bothered me
| (yet...)
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| xer0x wrote:
| I love these open air style designs. It's reminds me of Yuel
| Beast's Motif Monument too. https://yuelbeast.com/motif-monument
| qiller wrote:
| Looks nice! Though I like a similar design from Xtia, where they
| put GPU parallel to MB, making the whole thing quite a bit more
| compact.
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| I like that design too. An advantage of this design is it can
| remain vertical with a heavy CPU heatsink (the XTIA needs to be
| laid down). I also suspect the graphics card will be cooler
| with more airspace (I intend to put this hypothesis to the test
| soon). It's also not clear if they support attaching hard
| drives? And lastly, I anticipate this one will be cheaper all
| things considered (e.g. not requiring an SFX power supply) and
| US-made.
| high_byte wrote:
| yea it's cool for anyone without cats. (and you guys worried
| about dust, I think it would actually accumulate less dust but
| idk)
| leetrout wrote:
| Every bench tester just let out a collective sigh.
|
| These designs are neat but far from a new idea.
| jitl wrote:
| Why go for MicroITX motherboard in a case that has effectively
| unlimited dimensions otherwise? I buy small motherboards so I can
| stuff them into teensy cases that take up no space. What's the
| motivation for micro with a case that's macro?
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| Less desk space, mostly. And there's something visually
| appealing about having the CPU in the center of the board.
| yoz-y wrote:
| Is this designed to be placed in clean rooms? I can barely keep
| up with cleaning dust from surfaces that don't have air intakes
| on them...
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| Compressed air is your friend.
| amelius wrote:
| Doesn't a closed design produce more airflow around hot areas,
| when carefully designed?
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| Not without substantial noise, which is what drove me to become
| open-air pilled.
| Syzygies wrote:
| 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.)
| zumu wrote:
| My friend swears by his mostly open air case, albeit somewhat
| more traditionally shaped. A couple of notes from his setup:
|
| 1) It has a glass panel on the largest side side, but is open on
| the other sides. This prevents a lot of obvious failure cases.
|
| 2) It is wall mounted. This keeps it off the floor and away from
| associated detritus.
|
| Case looks really cool though. Best of luck!
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| Thanks a lot :) I'm actually working on other concepts that
| don't sit on the table. This is just the beginning.
| uggghhhhhhhh wrote:
| kevin_thibedeau wrote:
| RF emissions? DGAF.
| karlmdavis wrote:
| Very pretty. Hilariously dangerous and user unfriendly for anyone
| with kids.
| garciasn wrote:
| Cool idea but not something I'd find functional in my
| environment.
|
| I personally find this messy and not at all stylish. I would also
| be constantly fighting tumbleweeds of golden retriever hair
| clogging everything up.
|
| I wish them the best of luck.
| sixothree wrote:
| Maybe if the demo unit had better cable management. Open air
| frames definitely have a market, so it has some potential. But
| yeah, it's not for me either.
| baccgus wrote:
| Yep, same. From a design perspective, it looks hideous.
| madelyn wrote:
| In a house of two women with long hair, I highly doubt my GPU
| could survive me and my girlfriend over two weeks.
|
| Looks absolutely sleek, but if it had a base and a glass and
| aluminum cloche-style cover it'd be more practical. Open air just
| seems like a disaster waiting to happen.
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| I live with a long-haired person and we haven't had such issues
| -- follow your heart!
| Mo3 wrote:
| > What if you stop putting your components in a box
|
| ... and thus remove the protective casing and allowing every
| possible kind of foreign matter to intrude the components, having
| it take direct impacts if I accidentally hit my elbow on it, take
| possible water damage, not be able to have cats around it any
| more and my girlfriends hair being sucked into the CPU cooler?
|
| No thank you
| thrill wrote:
| I'd be curious to see heat dispersion capabilities.
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| Same. Whoever wants to do a thermal review (complete with IR
| imagery) gets a Monolith on the house.
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| Name made me expect a towering flat non-reflective black column.
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| The name is inspired from this:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_monolith
| Escapado wrote:
| Best of luck for the campaign. Judging by how much dust I
| regularly have to clean from my case meshes (we have a dog and
| clothes are often hanging to dry in my office) I would probably
| never buy an open case but they look kinda neat. Lookwise I would
| prefer the xproto but it's always nice to see alternatives. :)
| yeahgoodok wrote:
| Mesh solves a problem created by Big Case Fan who want you
| believe that you need a case to prevent dust from entering your
| computer.
|
| I kid. But honestly my quasi-passively cooled setup has been
| super easy to clean.
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