Today I will talk about one interesting device. They can heat the room, putting under the window, like any other electric convector. They can be heated “wisely”, according to any conceivable and inconceivable scenario. He himself can easily manage the smart home. You can play it and (oh, Cosmos!) Even work. (carefully, many large photos under the cut)
On the front side, the device consists of a single large aluminum radiator of no small weight. We approach closer, we look from above:
Hmm ... it looks like a small-sized power supply for some kind of computer stuffing. Go around the device and what we see:
... maybe it is a computer? ..
And really ... a computer. Here is the SFX power supply, here is the SSD, the motherboard ... even the power button is available. And yet, something is missing ...
Really. There is no cooling fan on the processor. Perhaps there is some kind of atom or something similar, not basking? No, here is the Intel Core i3 7100. A quite capable processor. But how is this possible? That's how:
Instead of a regular cooler, heat is removed from the processor using a system of contoured heat pipes and is discharged to a large aluminum radiator. All components of the system are attached to this radiator.
The result was the original "body" in the style of steampunk. At the same time quite adequate looking on the office desktop.
Modern desktop computer, assembled from ordinary components with a completely passive, silent, cooling the processor part - the dream of many geeks.
I remember how a certain number of years ago I was installing a huge radiator on a processor that could cool a not very hot, not top-end, processor without a fan. The case did not normally close anymore, but there was no limit to my joy at the silent operation of the resulting system.
With contoured heat pipes, silent systems can conquer new performance limits. The aluminum radiator of the considered PC with a size of 20 * 45 cm is capable of removing 120 watts of heat from the processor. That is, the use of an Intel Core i3 processor is not the top of the capabilities of the solution under consideration. Since the estimated power of this processor is only 51 watts.
Similar cooling systems are now a rarity. My only known competitor is the Calyos startup, somehow deprived of Habr's attention. A very successful campaign on Kickstarter, fees of € 262,480 with a target of € 150,000. But so far (it seems) without noticeable success in the implementation of the plan.
The system described here, produced in my native Yekaterinburg, is in a state of readiness for production. Far beyond the bare idea. The purpose of this article is to understand whether the noiseless solutions of the
Geektimes Habr audience are
interesting . If the topic turns out to be interesting, we can tell a lot about what “in the next series”.