SolidLogic GS-L10 Mini-ITX wraps itself in blanket of heat sinks for comfort, fanless existence
By Ross Miller 
posted May 2nd 2009 4:04PM
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That's hot.
No, thats cool.
It would be both hot and cool if this had a blu-ray player and then I could use it as a home theater player. Of course optical out would have been nice! Then 2k would be acceptable.
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No thats so cool its hot
Weird - it seems the, punctuation' from your comment' has ended up in mine :\
Good one Rebjas!! +3 Awesomeness points for your hilarity!
Here's the period you forgot..
Yeah, it is a cool, but only before all the dust accumulate in the gaps and pits of this case. How do you even clean it up?
Meet my friend the vacuum.
HAY.
FRIGGIN USE ME!
I lol'ed.
compressed air...
never tried cleaning out the heatsink from a 2001 P4 pc that has been left on for the last 4 years by an uneducated family...?
Looks like... this is a case... for more heat sinks...
YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAH
Your computer . . . . doesn't . . . have any fans.
I see . . . Heat sinks . . . EN MASSE.
But, no fans.
*puts on glasses*
It's actually quite a looker imo, as long as the side with all the ports isn't the front.
Let's go Ion, let's go.
Just pre-ordered 4 Zotac Ion mobos, fun time may ensue
no optical out for sound?
i dont think this is for a home media centre, more microserver, office pc.
Overclock it and you've got yourself a nice grill as well.
the solder just melts away into the convenient holding tray
Where's the power supply? I'm guessing there's an external adapter that's at least half the size of the computer.
Good question.
yeah this has most likely got an onboard DCDC, and a power brick laptop stylé.
They're not as big as the Mac Mini PSU....
Yeah on the far right above the red button there is a standard DC jack.
Woohoo! Actual OS choices! May the trend continue.
good luck.
my laptop was acting up the other day, and i emailed the guy i got it from, told him i was running jaunty and he said "Ooooh Ubuntu, ive heard about that virus"
fucktard
There aren't OS choices unless you can choose FreeBSD or OS/2 Warp.
I kid, I kid... :P
at the $861 price level with free OS, I'll have a second thought...
Don't give cooler master ideas....
what's the GPU?
GMA something, these boards are basically standardised laptop mobos.
Holy crap- people say the mac mini is over priced?
Next to the fanless design, what is making this so expensive?
The $900 base model has a celeron- absolutely ridiculous. At this profit margin, they only need to sell 10 of 'em to break even.
people pay silly money for fanless stuff, Fanless Epia Mobos are still £100 for a 600Mhz board with no SATA and DDR SDRAM...
yes, you magic weasel, you got it, its a gimmick!!
its absolutly overpriced. But hey, its fanless...
One good thing I cant think of: It must be wonderful for music making or audio editing when you need a silent room for recording... Just that justify the price.
@Oli D: Good point. People with money to burn are silly...
@Bobsley:
Why am I a magic weasel? What are you, 16?
Furthermore, anyone that's serious about audio:
1.) Would have separate recording/mixing areas.
2.) Keeps the computer in an area separate from the mixing room, and runs long USB and DVI/etc cables to the room for peripherals/displays.
3.) Sure as hell would get a more powerful computer with more storage space.
4.) Would rather spend the extra money on other audio gear.
Those are things serious things I *CAN* think of that still don't justify the price.
Anybody who isn't a pro probably has a decent laptop for all those things anyway- and unless you're mic'ing up your computer, you're not going to hear the fan noise. Unless your computer and/or set up sucks.
Just checked the website, it is now priced @$1.056.00 with a celeron processor. Perhaps it is for commercial industrial box and not for a *regular* consumer.
"1.) Would have separate recording/mixing areas."
yes.
"2.) Keeps the computer in an area separate from the mixing room, and runs long USB and DVI/etc cables to the room for peripherals/displays."
Sometimes that's not possible because USB has a 6 ft limit. I'm pretty sure DVI also has a length limit. (and it gets rly expensive)
"3.) Sure as hell would get a more powerful computer with more storage space."
Storage space is irrelevant to a computer's power. Also a good audio card does not require a powerful computer to record.
"4.) Would rather spend the extra money on other audio gear."
me too. plus maybe a soundproof box.
carpc would be a good application of this. but I like to do it myself.
@ aaronz8,
Actually you are wrong & Noandthen is 100% correct. I'm an audio engineer btw. I would NEVER even think about recoring witha POS like this. Wit ha celeron in it it can maybe handle 2 tracks at one time. Whoopdy fucking do. A mini ITX board cost $150. Thsere is one form Zotac that even has a Nvidia 9300m on it that would be better in this build. I don't understand how this company can sell this thing @ that price with a straight face. I'll build you the same thing for less then 500 bucks with graphics, a 1TB HD & a more powerful core 2 with no fans if you want.
ZenStyle, explain how would you would keep a more powerful C2D cool without fans?
@ Oil, by using a passive heat sink just like these guys did? What you don't think they sell those to the public?
I mean JESUS FUCKING CHRIST! These guys are ripping people off, the base config with an OS & a wireless antenna is over $1400! like I said the total combined parts they are using cost about $500. Maybe the case cost $1000-1500 to manufacture? I don't know but I do know a bad deal when I see one.
@aaronz8
Oh noes, I better take back these 3m usb cables and these 10ft usb extension cables then!
@NoAndThen
"2.) Keeps the computer in an area separate from the mixing room, and runs long USB and DVI/etc cables to the room for peripherals/displays."
USB has a maximum length of 10 feet for signal strength/reliability. DVI is somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 feet, depending on the cable used (If you go fiber optic you can get 300 feet).
Real studios have separate rooms for the artists and an engineering room (all of which should be soundproofed). If it matters how loud your computer is when you're recording, you're doing it wrong.
Home recording studio miracle!
no kidding... I often record acoustic guitar tracks in my computer room, this fanless computer is priceless for that kind of use. A lot of people are building ugly and bulky isolating case for their computers.
Fanless computer = win for noiseless recording.
Sad its overpriced.
20 ft. DVI cable and powered usb hub= miracle for noiseless recording.
Ground lift switches= miracle for noiseless recording.
Quality preamps and voltage regulators= miracle for noiseless recording.
This= WAY overpriced "meh" level PC.
Also, any HDDs used for HQ recordings (7200 RPM) create very audible Db levels anyhow.
I still think the $ is better spent on gear and moving your computer away from the recording/mixing space. Even with a laptop.
@No: Some people don't have a choice of 'recording/mixing space'. As for the HDD noise issue, no problem, they offer SSD options. (And you really don't need a 7200 RPM HD just to record audio - sure maybe if you're recording 24 channels or something.)
Anyhow, this has plenty of uses outside that; the most obvious being that some people, mys'elf included, simply like quiet. I've got a Mac Mini, it's not too noisy, but it's very far from silent. If it were offered, I'd be happy to pay a premium for a fanless, SSD model. (Probably not a three-times-the-price premium... but twice as much? I'd think about it.)
To be honest though I think rather than machines like this, it would probably be better for manufacturers to look at low-powered options (Atom, next year ARM, etc) for that kind of situation - take the hit in CPU power etc and you can probably make a nettop-level fanless computer *without* quite such a ridiculous heatsink, complex design, and corresponding price.
Any word if this has firewire 800 or e-sata? A small SSD in there with a fast external would be nice.
Looks like my old Denon car amp..