Pin fin heat sinks

We'd love to see more pin fin heat sinks available. Unlike traditional "plate fin" heat sinks that use long, parallel walls, pin fin heat sinks feature an array of vertical posts (pins) protruding from a base plate. This specific geometry makes them particularly effective in environments with natural convection or unpredictable airflow directions. Because the pins are individual posts, air can enter and exit the heat sink from any angle.

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DIY passive 4060

"For anyone interested, I've managed to cool an RTX 4060 low profile card completely passively using a slightly modified Arctic Accelero S1 for the GPU and a bit of custom fabrication work for the other hot components. No case fans either so truly, completely passive.

I'm super pleased with the result; after plenty of testing attempts with furmark it finally hit thermal throttling after reaching about 84 °C (at 22 °C ambient) according to HWinfo but generally sits fairly stable at about 80 give or take 2 degrees. I'm hoping a bit of undervolting will let me run it full blast during warmer months.

For some backstory, I've had a bit of an obsession the last few years over building a rig that's dead silent, ie. no fans, while remaining as performant as possible.

The problem is, the cooler mounting situation on the 4060 is wildly different, which I knew would matter but had some ideas in mind and kind of recklessly just bought the card and thought fuck it i'll figure it out. Well i figured it out, but not without headache. It turns out it's pretty easy to rupture the cooler heat pipes with a bit of "gentle" bending, which renders them useless. So after a couple of sacrificial coolers, redesigns, and shit-ton of time building a new mounting bracket plus memory and VRM heat sinks here we are."

Source: reddit 

Integrated Systems Europe 2026

Only few days until ISE 2026 opens its doors in Barcelona. Integrated Systems Europe is the world’s leading professional audiovisual and systems integration exhibition, showcasing the latest innovations for sectors like education, live events, and smart buildings. Check out Akasa's fanless cases at Booth 4K840, or book a meeting here.

Ryzen 5 8500G media streamer PC

"Had some spare parts lying around and decided to assemble them into a fanless media PC. Replaced the stock CPU clamping mechanism with a Thermalright contact frame for AM5 sockets, and all the other hardware came from HDPLEX. This will run Ubuntu Linux and send HDMI video and audio out to a basic LG A2 42-inch OLED, which will then pass the audio to a SVS Pro SoundBase amplifier via eARC for seamless remote control. Will play around with Linux to see if I can make the media apps parse the CEC commands coming back via the HDMI cable from the TV remote."

Source: PCPartPicker 

Core Ultra 5 125U multi-LAN PC

This great looking barebone PC is powered by the Intel Core Ultra 5 125U processor, a 12-core chip that features an integrated AI Boost NPU to accelerate machine learning tasks and network pattern recognition. Designed for advanced networking, the device is equipped with an impressive array of eight 2.5 Gbps Ethernet ports (seven Intel i226-V controllers and one Intel vPro-ready i226-LM port for remote management). As a barebone unit, it comes without pre-installed RAM or storage, requiring you to add your own DDR5 SODIMM memory and M.2 NVMe SSD. This unit is available for $776.99.

ZOTAC ZBOX C Series. Reimagined.

Our idea would be to have the same design for the Core-based fanless ZBOX and the low-power model. Both featuring a more straightforward and simple cooling solution: a large internal heat sink (ideally in copper) with enough room to "breath" and convection to occur. What do you think? 

Semi-passive build

"I based this build on the the first version of the Streacom FC5 fanless case. The case was released in 2011 and I previously used it with a Sandy Bridge CPU. I managed to adopt it to fit AM4 (not officially supported in this version, though the newer FC5 versions support it with the universal CPU mount). The case currently houses passively cooled Ryzen 5600G on Gigabyte Aorus B550 ITX board . The other cooling fin takes care of the Plex GAN 500W PSU. The GPU is RTX 5070 Founders Edition. The case sits in my AV rack under the TV and it's completely silent with normal use like Youtube or playing movies. The GPU fan only kicks in when I use it for gaming. FC5 wasn't designed for the modern GPUs use. I modified it to fit the 5070 and allow more air movement. The top lid was mostly cut out and replaced with mesh grille. There's also a mesh grille underneath the GPU, to allow the air in. The non-gaming temperatures sit around 40C for CPU/GPU. The gaming will take them much higher - 80-85C CPU and 60-70C GPU (with undervolt)"

Source: reddit 

Quieter4C as CNC controller

Courtesy of Robert Cowan

TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro available

The TerraMaster D1 SSD Pro features an 80Gbps Thunderbolt 5 interface and a dual-chip controller architecture, providing stable and efficient data transfer and a truly silent operation experience. The D1 SSD Pro achieves read speeds of up to 7061MB/s and write speeds of 6816MB/s, transferring a 6GB file in just 1 second. The D1 SSD Pro features an aerospace-grade aluminum alloy body, precision-machined using CNC integrated molding technology, offering excellent strength and heat dissipation. This gorgeous piece of hardware is available today for $249.99.

The perfect cooler-to-case ratio

We miss the Phanteks PH-TC14PE. This massive dual tower was capable of cooling 65W CPUs without a single fan. Available in several colors this behemoth of a CPU cooler was discontinued a couple of years ago. This 14 years old build is powered by an Intel Core i7-3770 processor, features 16 GB of RAM, a 240 GB SSD, and still runs like a charm.  

Source: blocket