Tiny, Passively-Cooled Gaming PC - Compulab Airtop 2

[AlexTheGreatish]

Small, quiet, powerful - normally you have to pick two - but Compulab thinks they have changed that with the Airtop 2.

 

Check out the Inferno Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1065085597/airtop2-inferno

 

Buy Comulab Airtop 2
On Amazon: http://geni.us/Jk7xm

 

 

[Daniel644]

at those prices you could build that damn fanless rad computer you guys did a few weeks ago

[JustAnEpicLime]

It's good, but it's missing one thing...

[closest.num.2.0]

This is really cool but im curious where the power supply is and what the max amount of watts it can handle, is it an external PSU?

[MaxBunny]

Or...pick up say a zephyrus with a 120hz monitor and 1080 for less. These are nifty but they have no value. $3,000 for a 1060 system is ouch. Over $2000 for a 1060 system is still ouch.

 

"But..but...muh engineering skillz!" - your innovation is not worth that much of a premium. Maybe $100-$200 above competition prices but not these absurd amounts.

[AT0MAC]

14 minutes ago, JustAnEpicLime said:

It's good, but it's missing one thing...

wow this machine just need some glitter and a unicorn sticker and bam best machine of 2017/18 - pc master race

[BachChain]

How does it compare the that other true silence case

[aezakmi]

1 hour ago, JustAnEpicLime said:

It's good, but it's missing one thing...

That's the best part.

[Madnessinme]

Can someone tell me how to find the float plane link? I cannot find it anywhere. 

[JCHelios]

So it does thermal-throttle in the Gamer's Nexus sense of the term, i.e.: "If it could turbo higher with better airflow, then it's thermal throttling."  That's not how the chipmakers and OEMs like to talk about it, but I think it's a useful point of view, especially if you're disinclined to leave processing performance on the table.  

(Personally, I greatly value acoustic performance, so I'm still bullish on this product.  But it's worth being explicit about the tradeoff.)  

 

3 hours ago, closest.num.2.0 said:

This is really cool but im curious where the power supply is and what the max amount of watts it can handle, is it an external PSU?

Seems to be a power brick, yeah: 

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In the box: 
1. Airtop computer
2. Power supply: input 100-240VAC 50/60Hz, 250W output 19VDC 13.15A

It says that it has "Dual power input for redundancy," so maybe you could buy a second one if the 250W thing worries you?  

[DildorTheDecent]

ya no thx

[Apepa]

What we need is a new case standard so that PCB manufacturers can build motherboards and graphics cards that are optimised for this kind of convection based layout so we can have the same kind of options as for ATX or Mini-ITX builds.

 

I would love something like this if the price were more reasonable.

[Eduard the weeb]

4 hours ago, Madnessinme said:

Can someone tell me how to find the float plane link? I cannot find it anywhere. 

you need to be paying for a membership

 

if you want to get it, you can go to the store ( top of the dashboard or this link https://linustechtips.com/main/store/ )

but the site is supposed to be launching on Wednesday 

[Daniel644]

4 hours ago, JCHelios said:

(Personally, I greatly value acoustic performance, so I'm still bullish on this product.  But it's worth being explicit about the tradeoff.)  

 

can you honestly say you can here modern PWM fans running at there lowest RPM setting? because prior to adding my first GPU to my rig me breathing from 10 feet away was louder (measured with an SPL app on my phone) then my H100iV2 running with the pump set to performance and fans set to quiet.

[Canada EH]

Have they shipped all out to funders?

Paid for vid?

$3700 and $2500 seems steep, but I understand where the cost comes from.

 

 

I'd prefer to build an mini itx build with 8700K

I would instead build around the Fractal Design Node 202 - Video Here - Build Here

$3500 including $1500 GTX 1080ti, 8700K, 7TB mixed,

[JCHelios]

22 hours ago, Daniel644 said:

can you honestly say you can here modern PWM fans running at there lowest RPM setting? because prior to adding my first GPU to my rig me breathing from 10 feet away was louder (measured with an SPL app on my phone) then my H100iV2 running with the pump set to performance and fans set to quiet.

My Define R5 on my desk is audible, yes.  Whether it's the case fans, or whether it's the components' fans, isn't really relevant to the comparison, since the Compulab doesn't have any fans at all.  

[Daniel644]

14 minutes ago, JCHelios said:

My Define R5 on my desk is audible, yes.  Whether it's the case fans, or whether it's the components' fans, isn't really relevant to the comparison, since the Compulab doesn't have any fans at all.  

if your fans are audible then you have them spinning to fast or they aren't PWM, the Meshify C fans aren't PWM so i'd be surprised if the stock r5 fans are.