Need Your Opinion About This Beautiful Case!

273 · 03-01-2016, 11:50 AM

I wish to retract my posts because astrogeek's post says more, more effectively, in fewer words.

jamison20000e · 03-01-2016, 12:24 PM

Wastes a lot of space, can put 9 circles on a shelf of 10 squares.

astrogeek · 03-01-2016, 12:43 PM

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I wish to retract my posts because astrogeek's post says more, more effectively, in fewer words.

Thank you for the vote of confidence, I blush!

But your own thoughts can best be expressed in your own words - please do not deprive us of those!

Even similar thoughts from different individuals are still unique, if only in that they derive from a different set of input and experience, by a different path! All contribute to the pool of shared understanding - please share yours!

273 · 03-01-2016, 12:50 PM

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Wastes a lot of space, can put 9 circles on a shelf of 10 squares.

However, with a fixed-sized motherboard, as this project seems to have, you have a fixed length.

jamison20000e · 03-01-2016, 12:56 PM

True and you would never put them side by side in this case.

Higgsboson · 03-01-2016, 03:40 PM

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I think that what will, and should happen is that boxes of suitable size and power usage for desktop environments will be packed with ever increasing capability, limited by the desktop form factors as they always have been.

People are no longer buying desktop PCs anymore. They're buying laptops, netbooks, tablets, phablets and smartphones. These are mobile, small form factors and use less wattage. Wiki
Desktops seem to be necessary these days for high power use like gaming, video-making and professional work.

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But desktop PCs do not have their current size because that is how big they have to be - they are their current size because that was the appropriate physical size for the use case arrived at when the silicon was much less capable. As the silicon has improved, the box did not shrink in same proportion, rather the capability put into the box increased dramatically. The box stayed relatively the same size and power levels.

The ATX size has smaller counterparts like MicroATX, FlexATX, DTX and mini-ITX. So it seems the box has been shrinking. These motherboard sizes have fewer expansion slots as they get smaller. The advantage is manufacturers can easily make different size computers for different purposes. The smaller size also needs less wattage.
The advantage of an ATX is its got more expansion slots and its size can mount a big fan to cool the CPU. But if you're not into gaming, what benefit is there to having an ATX size?

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When the silicon began to be really good, smartphone devices became possible and flooded the market. But while they allowed an important new use case, they did not, and cannot really, replace the desktop use case.

The smartphone CPU has an ARM architecture which uses less wattage so it can work off a battery. A desktop CPU will have an X86 architecture which can give more power use.
If you could put an ARM CPU into a desktop, then Intel and AMD will disappear overnight.

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Ten years from now I do not want to be sitting at my desk tapping away at a small screen device, regardless of how much processing power it has.

You won't need to. A mini-ITX desktop can be used on a 52-inch TV and display 4K resolution on it's own integrated GPU. It's just that it's not made for high power use.

jamison20000e · 03-01-2016, 03:56 PM

Amazon keeps showing me a commercial for a cylindrical speaker looking thing (Echo) seems stupid to me.

Higgsboson · 03-01-2016, 04:36 PM

There seems to be a competitor to the dune case which is the fanless case. Akasa Euler
The whole case acts as a heat sink so you don't need a CPU fan or even a PSU fan! So the whole rig has no moving parts and is completely silent.
However, you'll need a low wattage CPU.

There's also a heatsink which you can put on top of a CPU which also removes the need for a CPU fan and PSU fan NoFan. But it looks like you can't use an external graphics card with it.

So the dune case seems to be benefiting gamers who need an added solution to cooling the CPU and who prefer a mini-ITX platform.