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I need a humor injection and just saw a terrible example, so I give you...
The (Unofficial) SPCR Worst Fan Grill Contest
The (Unofficial) SPCR Worst Fan Grill Contest
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It's hard to name them by model?
I'd volunteer my 6 (!) 120 mm fans (ok, so 3 packs of 2) with which I'd intended to cover up my 120 mm fans.
NONE of them fit - at all - onto my chassis. Even withsuperglue, it'd be impossible to mount the darn things.
Not that it's a tragic loss (only 8-10 £ total, I think, at most). I just have now 6 fan-guards with which I can do nothing . At least I've got free airflow now... enforced .
I'd volunteer my 6 (!) 120 mm fans (ok, so 3 packs of 2) with which I'd intended to cover up my 120 mm fans.
NONE of them fit - at all - onto my chassis. Even withsuperglue, it'd be impossible to mount the darn things.
Not that it's a tragic loss (only 8-10 £ total, I think, at most). I just have now 6 fan-guards with which I can do nothing . At least I've got free airflow now... enforced .
Mounting holes should be kinda required (or some kind of fixing mechanism). Otherwise, we'd just wait for the first "clever" guy to come up witha steel plate.Ralf Hutter wrote:Damn, you may have the winner right of of the starting gate.HammerSandwich wrote:The Pia uATX cube
Do the cases that have no front intake at all count, or does there need to be four mounting holes in existance for it to qualify?
Though I'm quite impressed by HammerSandwich's example. Potentially a "killer in one".
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That'll be really hard to beat...
...but I'll try! You know, they coulda' save a *bunch* of money if they had left put those FOUR EXTRA HOLES -- in between the rows of three just inside of each mounting screw -- but they were feeling *really* generous that day...
Two 80mm fans (Aspire):
Coolmaster:
Enlight (no fan at all!)
"Generic":
Linkworld:
ANY of these make an Evercase or a BQE look like fishnet stockings!
Two 80mm fans (Aspire):
Coolmaster:
Enlight (no fan at all!)
"Generic":
Linkworld:
ANY of these make an Evercase or a BQE look like fishnet stockings!
HammerSandwich, you finally found a grill that beats out my grills for worst ever.
My contribution again:
Grills
Intake on the same case
My contribution again:
Grills
Intake on the same case
Re: That'll be really hard to beat...
Lol! That one's hilarious. It's as if they thought that the fan-shaped stamp would help airflow... that's what I like to think they thought anyway.NeilBlanchard wrote: Coolmaster:
Here is my entry. The machine in question is my old workhorse. The first 2 pics show the original intake and exhaust - for what there is. The last 2 show the mods that were needed to get some airflow.
The amazing thing is that in the original condition the machine worked fine for 3 yrs. Its one of the original Athlons, a whole 650Mhz
In the top of the case a 92mm hole was drilled, and an exhaust fan suspended. In the bottom a bunch of 10mm holes were made. The machine is then sat on 3 magazines to lift the front off the floor to allow airflow. Its hardly the best mod out there, but it was totally free as I had a spare fan
The amazing thing is that in the original condition the machine worked fine for 3 yrs. Its one of the original Athlons, a whole 650Mhz
In the top of the case a 92mm hole was drilled, and an exhaust fan suspended. In the bottom a bunch of 10mm holes were made. The machine is then sat on 3 magazines to lift the front off the floor to allow airflow. Its hardly the best mod out there, but it was totally free as I had a spare fan
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Yeah the PSU could take out some of the heat. But the big problem was that there was barely an air intake. Have a look at the base of the case where I drilled the holes. There is a slit in the front bezel for air. Bear in mind that the slit you are looking at there has been enlarged 3 fold by judicious use of a large file! No wonder my PSU fan was always flat out!!
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My first computer was a Wen brand 386SX/25 with 8MB of RAM and an 80MB Western Digital. It had SVGA graphics, MS-DOS 5.0, Microsoft Windows 3.0 and a GUI for DOS, called, "Direct Access 5.1." It also had a high-density 5.25" floppy drive (the full 1.2MB, formatted) and a 3.5" high-density floppy (a massive 1.44MB/disk, formatted). At the time, I was only nine years old.
I remember FUBARing my hard drive with MS-DOS 6.2 beta and DoubleDisk...
I remember writing a BATch file with full color and extended ASCII menus that could make custom boot floppies supporting different types of CD-ROM drives for the computer & A/V tech in my elementary school (man I almost cried the day my Double-Speed finally died; dad bought me a nice, 6X drive to make it all better!). Little did she know that I was making boot floppies with Star Control on them, giving it out, and we were all playing Star Control on the school computers during recess (yes, whole games PLUS the operating system could fit on single floppies back then!!!). ...
Thinking about it makes me feel old.
However, hearing about your 7.12MHz machine makes me feel young.
It's good to be average!
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PS Does anybody remember just how friggin' sweet it was to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and enable 32-bit File Access?!?
I remember FUBARing my hard drive with MS-DOS 6.2 beta and DoubleDisk...
I remember writing a BATch file with full color and extended ASCII menus that could make custom boot floppies supporting different types of CD-ROM drives for the computer & A/V tech in my elementary school (man I almost cried the day my Double-Speed finally died; dad bought me a nice, 6X drive to make it all better!). Little did she know that I was making boot floppies with Star Control on them, giving it out, and we were all playing Star Control on the school computers during recess (yes, whole games PLUS the operating system could fit on single floppies back then!!!). ...
Thinking about it makes me feel old.
However, hearing about your 7.12MHz machine makes me feel young.
It's good to be average!
-Ed
PS Does anybody remember just how friggin' sweet it was to install Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and enable 32-bit File Access?!?
Tsk - is that the best you can do?
My (own) first puter was a Commodore 64. Lasted for years, that critter. Loved it to bits .
My cousins started with a ZX Spectrum and later got a 286 (I believe the 16 MHz variant, though may have been less), and long were the nights of the original ELITE ... in CGA, at that.
My (own) first puter was a Commodore 64. Lasted for years, that critter. Loved it to bits .
My cousins started with a ZX Spectrum and later got a 286 (I believe the 16 MHz variant, though may have been less), and long were the nights of the original ELITE ... in CGA, at that.
Since the option of posting a picture of a piece of sheet steel has been removed and we have an alternate "first computer" topic -- I'll pick topic number 2.
My first notebook -- the epson HX-20, 614kHz of folding power, complete with a full size keyboard, 4x20 character LCD screen, integral micro-cassette drive and integral 24-col dot-matrix printer (think calculator printer). Had a full-size epson printer hooked up to it via serial as well as an external audio cassette drive for it. The printer (Printer? What was I thinking when I wrote that? Change to read Notebook) itself is 8.5x11.1.5" and about 3lbs -- about a weeks worth of run time on a full charge (ni-cd).
Still have it, but needs a new battery. Programmed my first engineering program (structural -- beam design) on it using it's version of basic. Amazingly, Epson still has a support sitefor it with manuals, troubleshooting tips and brochure
Dave
EDIT for stupid attack
My first notebook -- the epson HX-20, 614kHz of folding power, complete with a full size keyboard, 4x20 character LCD screen, integral micro-cassette drive and integral 24-col dot-matrix printer (think calculator printer). Had a full-size epson printer hooked up to it via serial as well as an external audio cassette drive for it. The printer (Printer? What was I thinking when I wrote that? Change to read Notebook) itself is 8.5x11.1.5" and about 3lbs -- about a weeks worth of run time on a full charge (ni-cd).
Still have it, but needs a new battery. Programmed my first engineering program (structural -- beam design) on it using it's version of basic. Amazingly, Epson still has a support sitefor it with manuals, troubleshooting tips and brochure
Dave
EDIT for stupid attack
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I remember talking to a guy when 486s first came out (1989?) who said there's no way he would be buying a CPU that chucked out that much heat - it can't be good for the system, surely it would fail after not very long.
I guess he's still running a 386 then!!
(Am I right in thinking that before the 486 CPUs didn't even need heatsinks at all?)
"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be"
I guess he's still running a 386 then!!
(Am I right in thinking that before the 486 CPUs didn't even need heatsinks at all?)
"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be"