Comments by "Titanium Rain" (@ChucksSEADnDEAD) on "Linus Tech Tips" channel.

  1. TheGIANTgonads You're just throwing ad hominems, you're literally just shooting the messenger by attacking my credibility rather than the facts. Of course I have seen the central rod. The problem is that, ironically, you're using first year classical mechanics - where you only calculate normal forces and assume there's no shaft deflection (a normal force doesn't prevent bending), and you're only using statics so you're not taking into account load imbalance. I don't know if you've ever heard of this, but turbines from a car's turbo have to be balanced by grinding away mass from the blades or else the weight is going to cause a cyclical load on the axle. Pretty sure those blades are not far enough apart to grind into them. Yeah, the load may be small enough so it doesn't deflect by too much (it will to a certain degree) but it's still an unecessary load on the bearings. Bearing life is extremely important, plastic fans weight so little that the cyclical load won't damage the bearings before you buy a new computer. But shit's gonna droop because no way that it's precisely machined like a car's turbo, or else it would cost more than water cooling. I mean, it's probably going to droop and rub against the "bottom" of the circular channels if placed sideways, leaving most of the contact area populated by minuscule air gaps while only the bottom allows heat transfer. It will lead to uneven wear. And finally, you didn't address the obvious concern, heat flow can only occur with precise mating of the surfaces. That's why we use thermal paste, to eliminate air gaps between the CPU and cooler interface. Air gaps act as a thermal resistance, and if that shit is spinning then obviously there will be gaps between the surfaces. Unless you're trying to tell me they perfectly lapped the mating surfaces so they spin in perfect contact. Sorry, if this shit was so revolutionary we'd have used it in other applications, it's not worth anything so it's peddled to computer enthusiasts with more money than brains who'll fall for every gimmick.
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  2. TheGIANTgonads Specific tooling? Wow, that's a stupid idea for such a niche product. I can see the tool marks left by the machining. inb4 "it's just a prototype" if you're going to leave a display model make sure it lets people see how good it is, not how lazy you are. You're wrong. Plenty of people will polish a turd for a quick buck. If you're really telling me that bad products are never let out the door because nobody would dare releasing something without solving every problem... I got bad news for you. If you pay me enough, I can design you a fan like this that "works" and I will try to address the fundamental flaws, but I can't promise that they'll be countered. I'm not any smarter or experienced by doing it, it's just a paycheck. Like Andrezzi said, a stupid decision in a smart person's life.
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  3. Axel D- Without a unit for me to inspect I simply do not believe the fan/heatsink works. We use thermal paste to fill in the gaps which could ruin the contact patch for heat transfer. A fan spinning around will have imbalances and those channels were definitely not precisely machined and lapped to eliminate air pockets between base and fan. A motor working at a lower power but drawing the same mass flow rate of air would probably perform better for the same size. Haven't found a review for it yet, until I see results I remain skeptical.
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  4. Virgin tempered glass meme rig vs Chad sleeper powerhouse
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  5. But most desktop PCs nowadays have the mobo mounted sideways - the fan will be naturally imbalanced and friction against the bottom of the circular channels. I mean, for the heat to flow easily the parts must be in contact, contact on the move means friction and friction means more heat. I'm actually in college for mechanical engineering, so...
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  6. Axel D- They could have replaced the metallic fan by a polymer one that would be much lighter (less power for the same RPM) and I bet that the temps would be equal if not lower.
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  7. EJ Taylor nobody is gonna steal over that, more like sell it to people who recover gold from electronics or other purposes for obsolete hardware.
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  8. Same lol
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  9. I said "obsolete" because that's what the case would make it look like, you could have a 1080 Ti in there and the thief probably wouldn't crack it open to check it nor try to find a niche market. Selling it to someone who specializes in electronic scrap is faster.
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  10. To be honest, on video a silenced gun sounds as loud as an unsuppressed gun anyway. YouTube is shit to notice sound differences.
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  11. Don't believe in fireproof safes, most fire departments have seen countless "fireproof" safes have unrecoverable content or have actually been destroyed by the fire. Simply put the temperatures inside a house fire can reach really high numbers but it's the duration of the fire that kills it. Just get stuff insured.
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