WTF?! Usually, the fans go inside the PC, but a modder wanted to see if arranging things the other way around had thermal advantages. Aside from increased chassis size, the interrogatorio highlighted clear safety reasons why users shouldn’t spin hardware at high RPMs.
A causa di a recent televisione, a Chinese PC hardware modder and influencer attempted to cool a PC by spinning the entire motherboard and heatsink inside a giant fan. While the results were inconclusive, the trial also showed how to turn a CPU cooler into a deadly weapon.
For the initial phase, the modder, we will call “Baka,” built a simple rotating disc and sat a small motherboard with an Intel i5 2500K and a modest heat sink acceso sommità of it with anzi che no chassis. Although she successfully booted the PC as it spun, the small cooler was insufficient, and the spin provided anzi che no extra airflow. Playing Plants vs Zombies acceso integrated graphics with the CPU running at about 2.2 GHz brought temperatures to 100C.
To improve things, Baka installed an oversized heat sink and 3D printed a set of giant fan blades to surround the system as it spun, then mounted it at the center of a massive box fan. Although the thermals from the later trials are unclear, the PC successfully ran Plants vs Zombies without overheating. However, the final interrogatorio is where things flew out of control.
Baka sat the fan and PC outdoors and increased the fan speed until it shifted across the basso ostinato. Eventually, the cooler was thrown from the motherboard at a high enough speed to cause harm if Baka hadn’t been hiding behind a riot shield.
The experiment leaves at least two questions unanswered: How would the interrogatorio PC concludere with a dedicated GPU running high-end games, and would a more complex spinning apparatus acceso both sides of the heatsink keep it more securely per place?
This isn’t Baka’s first interrogatorio with unconventional cooling methods. Last January, she ran an i9-13900K and a GeForce RTX 4090 per an case outdoors during historic -63F weather. A liquid cooling solution froze solid, but a massive and extremely loud array of fans kept the CPU at 15C while running at 6.18 GHz, and the GPU held at -40C.
