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Has anyone ever tried building a custom pc where entirety of case is a giant heat sink? Something like on this poorly photoshopped picture. I tried looking and didn't find anything like that. Would something like that even work or just be a waste of metals? 

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9 minutes ago, Kolyanfan said:

Has anyone ever tried building a custom pc where entirety of case is a giant heat sink? Something like on this poorly photoshopped picture. I tried looking and didn't find anything like that. Would something like that even work or just be a waste of metals? 

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There's already A LOT of it on the market from the likes of Streacom and Monsterlabo, but as far as mainstream brand goes, not much.

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There have been many. I don't know about mainstream offerings, but there definitely have been some specialized designs. Here are some that LTT has covered:

 

 

 

 

 

 

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WTF does a giant heat sink have to do with the history of PC cooling?>? lol.

 

I have a heat sink from an old head unit that's about 12"x8". I've never used it, it covers much of the mainboard. Wouldn't even get a video card plugged in with it. But it's not designed to be retro fitted to a PC, but perhaps at some point I can get to that.

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A lot of them. But there's little to no point for mainstream users. You have hundreds of kilograms worth of metal as your PC. Thats not cheap, and there's very few of those who would benefit from the silence aspect its supposed to bring. So when you can get near silent cooling for under $100 with decent to good performance? Not worth it for most.

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