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We are on a mission to minimise noise from our PC's but we put these heat generating components into closed boxes and then try an work out ways to silently pass air through them..
Now I know the case is there not only to house the components but also to block/reduce/minimise EMI.. How much EMI is there anyway and what does it actually do?? I know IT guys who NEVER have their cases closed up and as far as I know they don't have any issues..
So last night I was fiddling because it was a warm evening.. The ambient temperature was about 26C and using a food probe through the back of my case it was 33C inside the case at the top.. Thats a 7C difference.. So I got to thinking about how to get the inside of the case closer to ambient without making the fans run faster and making more noise..
So here is what came to mind.. What about a case made from mesh?? Something like the honeycomb design of the antec fan grills..
I figure I must be missing something, and its probably down to some regulation or other, because that would surely be the best way to silent computing.. The fan on the CPU cooler (if one was needed) would only have to spin really slowly if at all at idle and could spin a little more under load but it would be nothing like whats needed at the moment..
Does something like this exist?