TigerhawkT3
Flashlight Enthusiast
Not that I can afford a new PC right now, but one day...
My current PC is starting to annoy me. It has lots of fans, but I don't mind those. I'm completely used to their whirring and am able to ignore it. However, it's recently started to make a new noise that I can't solve. It's like when a bug forgets how to fly and is just buzzing around on the ground not going anywhere. I tried using a squeeze duster to blow at the video card fan, which worked for a minute or so, but then the noise came back. More dusting was to no avail, wherever I aimed the duster. I can't really pinpoint the location of the noise, either. It's driving me batty, because it's not fading out of my awareness. I'm thinking of getting one of those mechanic's stethoscopes to see if it'll help me find it.
So, I'm wondering about new designs for my future tower. I'd like something completely sealed to avoid dust, and fanless to avoid clicking, whirring, buzzing, and so on. I just took a quick look at liquid-cooled towers, but they just had fans elsewhere to cool off the liquid. :thinking: I'd be happy with something liquid-cooled but airtight, with hoses running to an external fanless heatsink with easy-to-clean surfaces.
It'd also be nice to have a tower with everything (drive bays, mobo ports, everything) on the front, so I don't have to crawl around under my desk every time I want to plug something in. I haven't seen anything like that before, but it'd be nice.
My current PC is starting to annoy me. It has lots of fans, but I don't mind those. I'm completely used to their whirring and am able to ignore it. However, it's recently started to make a new noise that I can't solve. It's like when a bug forgets how to fly and is just buzzing around on the ground not going anywhere. I tried using a squeeze duster to blow at the video card fan, which worked for a minute or so, but then the noise came back. More dusting was to no avail, wherever I aimed the duster. I can't really pinpoint the location of the noise, either. It's driving me batty, because it's not fading out of my awareness. I'm thinking of getting one of those mechanic's stethoscopes to see if it'll help me find it.
So, I'm wondering about new designs for my future tower. I'd like something completely sealed to avoid dust, and fanless to avoid clicking, whirring, buzzing, and so on. I just took a quick look at liquid-cooled towers, but they just had fans elsewhere to cool off the liquid. :thinking: I'd be happy with something liquid-cooled but airtight, with hoses running to an external fanless heatsink with easy-to-clean surfaces.
It'd also be nice to have a tower with everything (drive bays, mobo ports, everything) on the front, so I don't have to crawl around under my desk every time I want to plug something in. I haven't seen anything like that before, but it'd be nice.