Remember those gaming Rigs we saw from Acer way back when? Well, they actually sold them and guess what? They screwed up bigtime. More here about the recall and critics of Acer's design.
http://brightsideofnews.com/news/200...or-series.aspx
Remember those gaming Rigs we saw from Acer way back when? Well, they actually sold them and guess what? They screwed up bigtime. More here about the recall and critics of Acer's design.
http://brightsideofnews.com/news/200...or-series.aspx
lolPC cases are not designed for liquid cooling in the first place, anyway.
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What exactly was the problem with them?
EDIT: I see--they should fire whoever designed the cooling system.
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They should just sell those cases separately instead.
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I don't understand the problem.
Somebody put this in a closed cupboard I bet.
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He is partially correct, as a) there are only two case manufacturers that make cases that allow mod free mounting of a 360 rad (MM Cases and the Cosmos S), besides, the cooling of the pwm and nb area all too often relies on having airflow from the cpu cooler.
Anyway, serves Acer right.
Catching fire? I'd like to know how they manged to do that.
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overheating mosfets
Thats to bad its a cool looking case, wish they would just sell the case then so people can mod it.
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this computer was using a 1.120 radiator..... you shouldn't need a huge special case for a 1.120. the problem being that the fan for the radiator was the only case fan in the d@mn thing!
i'm not sure we can blame acer, after all this is the first computer they've ever built without integrated graphics! how could they know things get hot in there?!?
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God, are they really asking $6K for that? 9800's, a 9450 quad, and they can't even bother to sleeve the PSU or route the cables decently? We can laugh at boutique sellers all we want, but at least most of them have certain standards for what they sell. If I was given this for $6K, I'd be returning it with a cannon. And how the hell does a motherboard overheat and catch on fire from powering a non-OC'd 45nm quad? You can fart on the heatpipes to handle that kind of heatload. Whoever designed the cooling system is one sad, sad engineer.
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I'd like to bring to the table a classic proof of the situation. Ever read the comic strip 'Dilbert'? A engineer beat down by budget and management stupidity. I'm sure they have the brains. You read Dilbert enough you can just imagine the conversations between the boss and the guy who makes it work.......
Perfect analysis of the root cause. I was a professional involved in fixing such 'management wishes' vs reality for a few years. OMG, I'd hate to walk into Thermaltakes office with a goal. I'd shoot myself......
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guys read the article, then the blog post the article links to. the fire hazard was caused by the hard drive cage sometimes clipping power cables, it had nothing to do with airflow. the case has 4 fans pulling air through the case:
1x120mm fan on the rad
2 GPU fans
PSU
A wasteful, totally overpriced system got what it deserved, nuff said.
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