Sigh, must be nice when you can just do custom everything. Pretty cool though, they're really betting the farm on VR driving high-end system sales.
In a lot of (or, most of, as of now) tower PC cases an ATX PSU is placed on the bottom back with air intake from the tiny space between the case bottom and whatever surface the case is placed on reserved by the case feet, with warmer air surrounding the PSU enclosure than room temp, and also I'm sure many tower PC users place their cases against a wall with just enough space for the power cord/display cable/USB cables in between. Thermally I don't see such a setup being so different from, or better than, the kind of setup when hiding this external PSU under the desk in a typical room.Even if we assume that you can get a long enough run of sheathed cables to put it that far away, you're blasting all of the PSU's heat into wherever you put the unit. So not only does it have to be out in open air (lest you overheat it, meaning that cable hide-aways and discreet places are a no-go), but the PSU will push out a lot of heat onto anything in the immediate vicinity - electronics, feet, and so on.This thing is just wildly impractical.
AFAIK, you're right in that all the traditional cables you'd need to power all the components (ATX for the motherboard, 8-pin for the CPU, several 8-Pins for the graphics, etc) are what feed through the sleeve. In which case, AMD might not be able to make them very long, since the wires are (relatively speaking) thin, and resistance (or degraded voltage) becomes a constraint to power delivery.
Good point, didn't think about that. But if it's been done before, it can probably be done again. I don't know how PSUs exactly work, but I guess AMD could make a passive/water hybrid cooling solution that conducts heat directly to the metal plate of the bottom half of Quantum for all components that directly work with the AC voltage, and put glue over every seam where water could get in and use the waterblock part for the lower voltage DC parts of the PSU.The major issue with a watercooled PSU is running a conducting fluid through a components with exposed line voltages. There have been a handful of PSUs manufacturer-retrofit and sold to consumers for water cooling (though all over-length ATX models rather than SFF), so it's at least possible to pass safety testing.
I can't imagine that to have sold well. Seems very impractical to have the ports on the outside and then route them into the case. Pretty cool idea.Koolance's watercooled PSU was entirely self-contained with its own pump using nonconductive fluid, and used a plate heat exchanger to connect to a standard custom watercooling loop. The big footprint and added weight would probably make it not very viable for an SFF system though.
Oh my god that's the best idea! I thought about it very briefly but deemed it too complicated to further waste any thought on. But now that you say it, that could look so damn awesome I might just have to figure out a way to do it. And you could have like software customisable colours and blinking lightshows everything!So when are you going to add the LEDs to make the new horizontal Brevis S mount visually like the Quantum, @iFreilicht ?
True, but you'd still have to find a way to mount them inside that still lights the bottom up enough. I guess just using enough strips would be the easiest way to accomplish thatThe barebones version would be to take a cheapo self-adhesive 5V LED strip and sire it to an internal USB header rather than a USB plug. No blinkenlights, but super-low outlay.
Always looks good when you make it indirect and when it's even. It's tacky when you just stick the strips in and expose them directly to the view through a window or so. That just looks cheap most of the time.Have to be careful with LED lighting.. it's a fine line to walk between good-looking and gaudy
I'm having wet dreams about EL wire running along the gaps between the panels.My suggestion was made as a (half) joke, which is why I posted here instead of your build log.
I'd leave it up to buyers to mod it, although no reason why you couldn't offer it installed as an option or sell a parts kit.