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[QUOTE=Civil;43462232]Its fully mineral oil cooled which the cooling tech is the most expensive thing about it.
It makes no sound and its more effective at keeping computer components cold than watercooling. Also lasts longer than watercooling.[/QUOTE]
Yeah I'm skeptical as fuck
I don't see any way how they could have the entire cooling setup in that little box without air whipping through there at 60mph
What happens when you've spent a ton of money on upgrading this thing later on and realize that you have absolutely no way of re-purposing your old parts into something like a dedicated server or whatever without buying an entire secondary chassis for all of the old parts to fit into? You will have spent more money on the old parts at that point.
It's a nice concept, but the proprietary design just subtracts from the open nature of the PC platform.
It's actually pretty cool concept. Mineral oil cooled modular components, not restricted forward compatibility by intel sockets. However its probably outweighed by the bullshit price they'd put on it, and the ugly l33t g4m3r LED's and shit. If it had the silver aluminium look I'd probably buy it depending on how forward compatible it is. The mineral oil cooling concept is quite good too, I can imagine that being quite silent, however it will definitely cost a lot for that since cooling mineral oil is harder than water (and will run hotter).
[QUOTE=MR-X;43454689]It's a pretty interesting concept.[/QUOTE]
Rack servers have been doing this for years, it is in no way a "new" idea.
[QUOTE=Jetblack357;43470438]Rack servers have been doing this for years, it is in no way a "new" idea.[/QUOTE]
Nobody has brought it to the consumer gaming market before.
[QUOTE=paul simon;43470593]Nobody has brought it to the consumer gaming market before.[/QUOTE]
Probably because there is no need to, anybody with a shred of knowledge knows how to build an actual desktop and install the hardware for it.
[QUOTE=Tasm;43470417]It's actually pretty cool concept. Mineral oil cooled modular components, [b]not restricted forward compatibility by intel sockets[/b].[/QUOTE]
The physical socket doesn't matter so much as the chipset on the motherboard. Assuming this is a traditional plug-shit-into-motherboard setup and they don't so something weird like have a "motherboard" module, then only select CPUs will work with the motherboard in the base of the computer.
So basically it's an overpriced gimmicky way to put a computer together and really has no upsides over a traditional one you built yourself.
[QUOTE=Falubii;43454236]I bet the cooling and noise levels are just fantastic.[/QUOTE]
Actually it's really quiet since it's cooled by mineral oil.
[QUOTE=Strontboer;43472555]Actually it's really quiet since it's cooled by mineral oil.[/QUOTE]
There still needs to be something cooling the oil, badly done liquid cooling can be louder than most air cooling setups
I might be overthinking it, but what if there's no liquid to cool with anymore? What I assume is that the parts if you buy them new will have no cooling liquid in them and if you change it with the old parts the liquid stays in the tubes.
Unless it's somewhere stated that it sucks all the liquid back into the base so when changing the parts no colling liquid is left in the individual parts it could mean that the cooling could get worse each time you get a new gpu or cpu/ram or anything else because some of the liquid stays in the old parts.
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