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I'll bite.

How are you supposed to protect it from dust?

>>13811258

It actually doesn't dust that much. And I can use these air-in-a-can if I really need to clean it.

>godzilla

>not rodan

dubs

>>13811264

So you didn't think it through.

rip

>>13811264

>I can use these air-in-a-can and blow the dust all over the room

Good to see that you have priorities. Healthy lungs or saving $25 for a case. I know which one i'd choose.

>>13811281

Actually, I have thrown the case away :D

I would have constant anxiety about that shit out in the open, at least cases offer protection.

>>13811253

>>>/tech/

sage

>>13811300

>Having an ON/OFF switch

>Not simply using your keys to short the pins on the mainboard

You'll never become a sophisticated minimalist with all this unnecessary bloat

>>13811316

Well, I wanted to keep it practical.

Somehow I'm reminded of that Simpleplanes thread.

My computer is on the corner of a wall, glued to the table with stale semen and sideways and an african-american still knocked it over.

RIP OP's computer.

Fun fact:

I have this switch from this device here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kCbj9lvMXZ8

>>13811316

I've busted my DIY front face controller when I've put power connector in reverse and it flew 12 volts across 5 volt bus, now I have the button cable dangling on the side of the case, I short it with a jumper wire to start the PC. Another cable comes out of it, and it's connected to a potentiometer, it controls the power fans (triple set, 5k RPM).

that is one niggered up pc, op. gg

>>13811371

>2017

>not spitting on your finger and shorting the power button pins with it

Are you the one who scientists who study my intellect call "ungifted"?

>>13811253

All the shitty design decisions notwithstanding, you got one thing none of the off-the-shelf-casefags will ever have: superior airflow. None of your hardware will crawl into even yellow temperature zone unless you torture test it.

>>13811382

>not having a massive lever on your wall that sparks and dims the whole house as it starts your computer

It's like you don't even care.

>>13811382

I'd fix it but I've made it with my prototyping components, the fucking ATmega666-fuckyou-edition, it's expensive as shit and it's very difficult to flash, it's not worth the effort.

>>13811281

>>13811278

Wouldn't it be possible to just use a small soft duster to dust this thing? I mean, OP is stupid for doing this but I dunno if dust is the main problem here.

somebody post the fursuit one

>>13811400

OP here: No, there is no problem with dust. And I'm not stupid!

>>13811383

That's a myth.

A closed system with fans constantly replaces the hot air inside it, whereas in an open system the high pressure on the exhaust of fans and low pressure on the intake of fans causes the fans to constantly take in the hot air they just put out.

An open system is cooler and more power efficient (electronics lose efficiency at higher temps) than a closed system with no case fans though, because then the case will just keep the air that does escape from the high pressure/low pressure loop in.

>>13811400

Dust is only a problem when it accumulates on the radiator and stops hardware cooling - and you fix it with a brush or some compressed air. Passive components don't give as much as a sliver of shit about dust: it's inert, non-conductive, doesn't weighs anything. Also the very reason the dust can get there is because the air in the room was filled with dust to start with. So "lol lungs" is a dumb argument - the dust was always there, it's just radiator grill is very good at gathering it so it's visible.

>>13811424

If you do that, won't there be bees in your honey?

>>13811431

additional protein

no, you smoke those little guys out

>>13811415

Well I've been building a number of my own PC cases and I know for a fact that open case with some fans blowing is several times superior to a closed case temperature-wise. Hot components put out tons of heat and to maintain adequate temperatures a lot of air needs to be pushed over the radiator, and that just won't happen in a closed computer case unless you put industry blower on it, these rinky dink 0.5 amp fans do not do shit. I have 5 amps worth of recirculating fans on my case and that still doesn't do nearly as well as if I simply remove the case and let these the fans blow over the electronics.

Also "temperature reduces efficiency" is bullshit. Technically it does but on a very small scale. The real issue is that transistor gates are tiny and burn out easily, plus they can put out so much heat that the solder comes off and they lose contact with the circuit - this is the most common GPU failure mode, die melts the solder and comes off the board.

>>13811443

>inb4 what amps have to do with it

Voltage is constant 12V so amps indicate power - multiply amps by 12 and you get watts.

>>13811443

Well then I'm not sure about the open vs closed situation right now.

The efficiency stuff is real though, I tested it when I bought my current PC.

Try disabling your gpu, disabling any kind of power saving on your memory, setting your hard drive(s) to spin up at maximum speed always, locking your cpu to max frequency and then running a cpu-stressing program while tweaking the cpu fan's speed.

With my core i7 4770 I got 41~c at the highest fan speed and then the highest temp I allowed was 75c with the fans going slower. This 34c difference on the cpu was enough to cause a 14w higher power use reading on the wall, definitely more than just the cpu fan consuming more power and a significant difference for a 84w cpu.

It probably matters even more on more modern cpus because the transistors are smaller.

>>13811457

Man, Hitler really did look like an avocado.

>>13811454

That actually sounds pretty practical, and it'll make your pc effectively silent because you'll be far away from it. Might require some fuckery for HDMI cables, for some reason their latency is huge. For instance it's common to route long HDMI connections through a cat5 cable with an active adapter or the latency makes the screen unusable.

If you're like me and have a trillion bazillion fans hanging around that you'll never use because they scream like a certain soviet commercial flight supersonic plane, you could even put them to work and at maximum speed.

>>13811507

Generally speaking HDMI length doesn't become an issue unless it's something crazy like 200ft because of the nature of TMDS

>>13811253

>that video card

>gaming

how's minecraft these days?

>>13811454

>To cool the PC I will add an air duct from the PC compartment in the walls to the homes air vents.

Bad idea - condensate will form fast

>bumping a bait thread

>>13811651

Hey, it's a Nvidia GTX 750!

>>13811661

Good point

Another way to handle this would be just a single vent going to the houses vent system instead to act purely as an exhaust vent, meanwhile I can have a fan blowing air from underneath instead of from another house vent

>>13811457

The GPU is stabilized by the WIFI card.

some day you will build up a large electrostatic charge and go to turn it on and fry everything. please make a follow up crying thread then so we can laugh at you.

>>13811455

Ok. here are the specs:

System Specification—17.11.2017 06:41:16

Windows Windows Version 6.2 (Build 9200)

Internet Explorer 9.11.15063.0

Memory (RAM) 8138 MB

CPU Info Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6400 CPU @ 2.70GHz

CPU Speed 2717,9 MHz

Sound Card Speaker (USB Sound Blaster HD) | SPDIF-Out (USB Sound Blaster HD |

Display Adapters NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750

Monitors 1x; Generic PnP Monitor |

Screen Resolution 1440 X 900 - 32 bit

Network Network Present

Network Adapters Realtek PCIe GBE Family Controller | Kaspersky Security Data Escort Adapter | Intel(R) Dual Band Wireless-AC 3165 | Realtek RTL8188CE Wireless LAN 802.11n PCI-E NIC | Microsoft Wi-Fi Direct Virtual Adapter

CD / DVD Drives No optical drives found.

Ports COM Ports NOT Present. LPT Port NOT Present.

Mouse 16 Button Wheel Mouse Present

Hard Disks C: 118,7GB

Hard Disks - Free C: 73,0GB

USB Controllers 1 host controllers.

Firewire (1394) Not Detected

Manufacturer * American Megatrends Inc.

Product Make * Aspire TC-710

AC Power Status OnLine

BIOS Info | |

Time Zone Mitteleuropäische Zeit

Battery Status No Battery

Motherboard * Acer Aspire TC-710

IP Address 192.168.0.5 |

MAC Address AC-81-12-C0-15-81

Host Name DESKTOP-FA9QVAG

SM BIOS R01-A2

>>13811264

>>13811281

>not just using a vacuum

>>13811424

Do the bees fly up and build combs inside of the jars or do the combs get placed in the jars?

>>13811677

It's not a complete bait. It is wall mounted and I can play Dirty Bomb with best graphics.