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The unit is rated to exhaust up to 1300 watts of heat. It uses heat pipe technology, has a low-speed fan. It was the costliest of several I looked at, and the only one that used heat pipes. Noren formerly offered a model that used no fans at all -- it was the size of a refrigerator and rated at, I think, around 475 watts. I believe they've discontinued that model. The idea with this one is that the heat pipes are doing most of the work of heat-transfer -- so that the fan can spin slowly and still get the job done.
I have a bunch of DAW components that I haven't assembled yet, that I can only hope will work out. The Acoustilock box will hold 2 rack-mount computers -- 1 for the DAW and the other for everything else. One of them uses a 475 watt fanless PSU -- I'm hopeful that will do the job also! I'm using a quiet solution (Zalman) on the CPU also. Plus fanless GPU and chipset. The case fans will have a speed control, and with extensive temperature monitoring (at board level, case, box, and room), hopefully I'll know if I'm cooking it too much. The other rack chassis (non-DAW) will be powered off during tracking for maximum quietness. So we'll see.
Raxxess made something for around $700., and Middle Atlantic for maybe $1200. I think.
regards,
mark
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