Show HN: Monolith – A stylish and functional computer frame
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#2Every bench tester just let out a collective sigh.
These designs are neat but far from a new idea.
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#3Doesn't a closed design produce more airflow around hot areas, when carefully designed?
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#4Cool 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.
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#5I'd be curious to see heat dispersion capabilities.
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#6Best 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. :)
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#7Cool 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.
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.
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#8Why 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?
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#9Doesn't a closed design produce more airflow around hot areas, when carefully designed?
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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#10Is 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...