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mike7411
Is the primary motive for having metal cases to encourage heat
dissipation?
Thank you.
dissipation?
Thank you.
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Lez Pawl
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Rod Speed
Nope, thats mostly done by the fans.
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paulmd
Not really. Plastic is too fragile. And Why buy a PC you can't use as a
footstool?
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kony
No, for metal to be an effective conductor it has to be in
contact with the hot parts. Even with hard drives mounted
in metal bays, one can see from the side of the drive and by
taking a finely made straightedge, that their sides are only
flat enough to be in contact with a small % of the metal.
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Rod Speed
kony said:
Wrong when the flexible drive bay stack is screwed up to the drive properly.
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DaveW
And proper electrical grounding of the components and motherboard.
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kony
Oh no! Rod disagrees!
Pity you don't actually look at the drive, look at the case,
or notice that for the metal to bend that much it'd have
permanent creases in it.
Maybe your cases are built like tin-foil. That'd come
closer to doing what you suggest but mine are a wee bit to
thick.
We've already covered this topic Rod, don't be a sore loser.
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Rod Speed
Pathetic, really.
Done that more times than you have had hot breakfasts, child.
Thanks for that completely superfluous proof that you have
never ever had a ****ing clue about anything at all, ever.
Yep, you got done like a dinner, as always.
Never ever could bullshit its way out of a wet paper bag.
Never could explain how the metal drive bay stack ends
up at the same temp as the adjacent drive frame metal either.
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Strunk White
You have macros set up for these overused "come backs" of yours or do
you type them every time?
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Poly-poly man
"Case"? What is this "Case"
They all say that you need to ground everything correctly, but on decently
made parts, it's not a problem. Basically, they look nice, and wont break
(sending expensive parts to break each other
poly-p man
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WindsorFox
If the metal is aluminum then it could be of benefit toward cooling.
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WindsorFox
Rod said:
You're wrong again... It depends on the case.
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WindsorFox
kony said:
I have 4 cases in use and only one even makes metal to metal contact
on the hard drives. The Dell cases at work have no metal to metal contct
with drives, so that puts him at *BUUZZZZZZZZT!!* Wrong in a vast
majority of computer cases.
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One big ol' Ab. - BigSkiff www.titanspot.com
Pyongyang sounds more like the sound effect an ACME catapult makes
as it goes off at precisely the wrong moment for Wile E. Coyote. -
Cadbury Moose
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WindsorFox
Rod said:
Maybe that's the trouble, senility. You should pay more attention to
what you're doing when you do it.
Lets see, I have three hard drives sitting here right now. Laying a
steel ruler across the mounting screw holes I see; ha! whataya know,
there is a raised area around all three screw holes so when you tighten
all three screws only about 1/8" actually makes metal to metal contact.
Looks like you are, yep, wrong. And as I pointed out earlier, that is
ASSuming that the particular case in question has a mounting solution
that actually provides metal contact, most don;t these days for reason
of noise concerns. You can't back out of this one.
No you can't. When you're right you are right, but when you are
wrong you try this and it rarely works. You should stop trying.
On my Lian Li it doesn't. The rack gets warm, but not nearly as warm
as the drives in it and it's all aluminum.
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I used to have abs. Now, I've just got ab.
One big ol' Ab. - BigSkiff www.titanspot.com
Pyongyang sounds more like the sound effect an ACME catapult makes
as it goes off at precisely the wrong moment for Wile E. Coyote. -
Cadbury Moose
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Mike Walsh
I suspect the main reason for using metal is electromagnetic shielding, as plastic side panels usually have a thin metal shield on them.
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Rod Speed
WindsorFox said:
Fraid so, there are plenty of cases that have
proper metal contact in the drive bay stack.
You should let go of your dick before you end up completely blind.
Pity about all the rest.
But doesnt have metal to metal contact, stupid.
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Rod Speed
WindsorFox said:
Wrong with the cheaper cases and the technical
term for your 4 is 'pathetically inadequate sample'
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Rod Speed
WindsorFox said:
Nope, the fans do most of that.