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so you guys might have seen a video I did recently where I had this
ginormous passively cooled gaming slw
workstation Grade box back at the studio here but a lot of you pointed out that
ah that solution wasn't necessarily that practical for most people and the fact
that it's so big and so heavy means that
a lot of folks wouldn't be that interested in it well right here in the
super micro Suite they are showing off something pretty unique so they've got
their new lineup of z270 motherboards including a high-end one with two u.2 2
m.2 for PCI e16 as well as overclocking
features all the way down to a more basic one but this this is where I
headed in fact this one doesn't even have one of their desktop boards in it
because they're still working on a Mini ITX consumer one this is
Project kubu I'm just going to make up a name for it because it actually doesn't
even have a name this is so early stages that they're basically just bringing
like a like a a a custom you know
machine shop made prototype here to get
customer feedback what do you guys think of the color what do you think of the
size what do you think of the orientation what do you think of the performance well you can't tell me
anything about that unless I tell you what exactly it is so inside inside this
box is a 100% passively cooled core
i56500 and GTX 106 3 gig gaming box and
when I say passively cooled I mean
100% passive so you'll see on the top
we've got nothing but a whole lot of mesh going on on all the sides you've
got pretty much not a whole lot going on other than mesh and there's a very good
reason for that when we flip it over on the bottom we get a look at the I/O and
we also get a look at the massive now I
would call them heat sinks but what these actually are are condensers
because just like that system that I showed off in the recent video this is
using one of those passive phase change cooling systems from calos so let's get
it opened up so here it is we've got an 1151 motherboard from their embedded
lineup we've got a couple of sodm slots so that would give us support for up to
32 gigs of memory which is in fact they have in here we've got an NVMe SSD
running uh nowhere for a 2 and 1/2 in drive yet but hey let us know if you can
see a spot where that would make sense I'm sure they would love to find more
room for expansion and ah yes there it
is right there the heart of one of the
two cooling engines so this is pretty neat once you take off the black mesh
around the top you can see there are actually two separate condensers so
think of it kind of like a uh like a dual Loop liquid cooling system don't
pay too much attention to the io or the placement of the power button because
all of that stuff is very much a placeholder moving around to the other
side we get a look at the GPU so there we've got one of those super short GTX
10603 gigs cooled by yet another one of
those cooling block cooling engine type things that through some black magic
allows the fluid to actually circulate
within the loop without any pump or any other noise whatsoever another fun thing
over here is this aluminum foam so I
actually hadn't been able to figure out exactly what that was on the previous
system it is for Passive convection Cooling and it's just an off-the-shelf
thing that you can buy pure aluminum foam Go free configure also over here is
a 250 wat 80 plus Platinum power supply
also passive and back to Performance for
a minute here or getting to Performance you can expect CPU temps in the
neighborhood of 4 5 to 50° 55 yeah
that's about where we're at across all the four cores and on the GPU we never
saw higher than 77° in a 22° c room so
well within reasonable temperatures
right now there is no um clear sort of
ETA for when something like this would be available but as a concept goes this
looks pretty cool and super micro estimates pricing would be in the $4.99
range for configuration like this so let us know in the comments what you guys
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