Very cool stuff (especially about the ionic cooler ). The demand is obviously there, if a company or individual was to develop and patent a low-cost, safe, and practical ionic fan design they could probably make some decent money -- especially if OEMs like HP, Dell, etc. adopted the technology. Mig...

After preliminary tests: CPU temp stabilzed at 22-23 degrees abve ambient (this is with "stress -c 8" for over 3 hours). No issues with stability during this time. Don't know about temp on chipset bridges and mosfets, but have a suspicion they will not be much hotter with "my" solution than in a cas...

This looks promising...

http://www.ase.se/

Yes, one of my sources of inspiration... How do I know if it works or not? I can monitor temperature on cpu, harddrive and motherboard. If they all are reasonable under heavy load can one assume it is OK? Or should one really get the temperature at other positions as well (i.e. use external thermoco...

A VERY simple drawing (not to proportions):

http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e256/ ... /slask.jpg

Upside down is not correct. It is all vertically oriented, with heat going from cpu, over "box of metal" (either cupper as from suggestion or aluminum) to case (aluminum plate). And the aluminum plate is going to be extended with fins or something... The "box of metal" I'm going to use has a height ...

Thanks for replay! Have already bought the components (over 6 months ago), but havent gotten the time to put them together yet :-( Processor is a semperon 3000 (64 bit). Since it was cheap, and fairly low on "wattage". It seems fairly durable. Reason I asked is that I have to put on quite some press...

I'm building a fanless computer, using ideas found on this forum. That is, I turn the motherboard "upside down", and use a piece of aluminum to connect the cpu to the case which is then coold by natural convection. Nothing running yet, but there are two issues I could use some advice on: 1. How easy...

Have you checked with

http://www.avc.com.tw/

they advertise heat pipes, but I don't know if they only sell in large quantities.

I would certainly be interested to hear if you mange to buy any.

Regards

Similar to the Kill-A-Watt I think, but called something different.

But maybe I should be a bit cautious, since neither hard drive nor the internal graphics-chipset were put to the stress when I did the measurement.

I have measured a maximum power draw of about 75 W when cpu is loaded to the max. Would a PSU like this, rated to 120 W, be suficient for my system?

Regards,

/jon

Most of the passive PSUs aren't easy to disasemble at all, infact most of them that were reviewed were deemed too tricky to do without damaging them by the SPCR team. Secondly none of them were advised with fanless systems. Now that's out the way, good luck and have a look at the mods people have d...

I'm going to build a fanless system, using fins at the outside of the box - similar to the one described in http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=17948&highlight=heat+pipe For my setup it would be natural to use the external cooling (i.e. the "cooling wall") to also remove the heat from t...

Not totally related. But... I have a MSI, micro-ATX, K7N2GM2, with a nforce2 chipset. The system is homebuilt and designed to be silent (no fans except the one in the PSU). After one hour of CPUburn, cpu (Semperon 3000+) is measured to be 55 C, and after immediate reboot bios shows CPU 51 C and syst...

How did you get the heatpipes? Have been trying to get hold of heatpipes, but not been able to find a dealer willing to sell in smaller quantities.