[HN Gopher] The Beautiful Machine (2020)
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       The Beautiful Machine (2020)
        
       Author : aliqot
       Score  : 39 points
       Date   : 2022-10-28 07:10 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | nextos wrote:
       | I am planning to build a similar PC, and the DB4 case is on top
       | of my list.
       | 
       | I am also considering HDPLEX [1] and Cirrus7 [2] cases. The
       | HDPLEX H1 is a bit less pretty, but seems able to cool many Xeons
       | with its 1 kg cooper heatsink (!). Cirrus7 is somewhere in the
       | middle, and also a bit harder to assemble. They are typically
       | sold as ready-made systems.
       | 
       | [1] https://hdplex.com
       | 
       | [2] https://www.cirrus7.com
        
         | uniqueuid wrote:
         | Wow, I had not seen those. The hdplex is an especially
         | beautiful case.
         | 
         | And it's quite obvious that they care about details from their
         | CAD illustrations [1].
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         | [1] https://hdplex.com/hdplex-h5-fanless-computer-case.html
        
       | uniqueuid wrote:
       | While it's beautiful to have fanless machines, I was kind of
       | horrified by the temperature on the SSD. 82 degrees is NOT where
       | you want your m.2 drive to be!
       | 
       | Yes they do run hot, but that means they need to be cooled
       | adequately. Even if you're lucky enough not to have the
       | controller die on you, it will still massively throttle and give
       | you much less I/O than theoretically possible.
        
       | amelius wrote:
       | How do you remove dust from it?
        
         | anxiously wrote:
         | Open the case and use a leaf blower.
        
           | kelsolaar wrote:
           | Isn't the case fully sealed here because of passive heat
           | dissipation? So you would need to only clean the outside
           | surface.
        
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             | ComputerGuru wrote:
             | It should be. The PSU is fanless, and that's typically the
             | only forced air ingress/egress.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Related:
       | 
       |  _The Beautiful Machine_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23983087 - July 2020 (1
       | comment)
       | 
       |  _The Beautiful Machine_ -
       | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22501462 - March 2020 (9
       | comments)
        
       | bombcar wrote:
       | I'm disappointed that Apple (or someone) hasn't used the modern
       | low-power chips (such as the M1) to make a computer that is
       | perfectly sealed, no moving parts and no dust paths.
        
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