Setup for cooling my new mini-PC
Aug. 19th, 2022 05:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kestrellWhen I bought these items, I really wasn't sure what would work and what would fit on a *really* small shelf, so I bought the cheapest items that also had positive reviews.
Amazingly, after only one day, my mini-PC (her name is Hermia, because I give all my computer female names from Greek mythology) is actually cool to the touch, and everything fits compactly on a shelf that is 11 1/2 inches wide (Hermia is only 2 inches high). In addition, I spent less than $25 on these two items, and both of these items are often on sale on Amazon.
The items names and links to Amazon pages are below, but here are descriptions:
1. The tower stand looks like a highly perforated metal cookie sheet on adjustable legs. It's very solid and could definitely handle a much larger PC, monitor, or whatever.
2. The computer fan --which is actually two fans arranged on a bendable wire V which then attaches to a clamp --claims to swivel in all sorts of directions, and actually does. The clamp opens very wide, and two double-sided sticky pads are included for additional adhesiveness or to protect the finish on whatever you are clamping the fans to. There is a switch on the fans which you press to cycle through low/high/off, which makes adjusting the fans very accessible to a blind user. The fans do produce a low fan oscillating sound which sounds just like the fans on old-school computers, however you feel about that.
PUTORSEN Monitor Stand Riser with Vented Metal 3 Height Adjustable
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VB1PFR1?ref_=pe_386300_442715950_DDT_E_DDE_dt_1
Monitor Clip on Fan with 2 Fan Heads, 3 Speeds Office Desk fan USB Powered Cooling Fan with Sturdy Adjustable Clamp
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XFSBHRR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
Amazingly, after only one day, my mini-PC (her name is Hermia, because I give all my computer female names from Greek mythology) is actually cool to the touch, and everything fits compactly on a shelf that is 11 1/2 inches wide (Hermia is only 2 inches high). In addition, I spent less than $25 on these two items, and both of these items are often on sale on Amazon.
The items names and links to Amazon pages are below, but here are descriptions:
1. The tower stand looks like a highly perforated metal cookie sheet on adjustable legs. It's very solid and could definitely handle a much larger PC, monitor, or whatever.
2. The computer fan --which is actually two fans arranged on a bendable wire V which then attaches to a clamp --claims to swivel in all sorts of directions, and actually does. The clamp opens very wide, and two double-sided sticky pads are included for additional adhesiveness or to protect the finish on whatever you are clamping the fans to. There is a switch on the fans which you press to cycle through low/high/off, which makes adjusting the fans very accessible to a blind user. The fans do produce a low fan oscillating sound which sounds just like the fans on old-school computers, however you feel about that.
PUTORSEN Monitor Stand Riser with Vented Metal 3 Height Adjustable
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07VB1PFR1?ref_=pe_386300_442715950_DDT_E_DDE_dt_1
Monitor Clip on Fan with 2 Fan Heads, 3 Speeds Office Desk fan USB Powered Cooling Fan with Sturdy Adjustable Clamp
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09XFSBHRR/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Date: 2022-08-19 01:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-19 08:14 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-08-19 10:12 pm (UTC)Let's hear it for endless consumer cycles: fanlessness became cool (sorry not sorry) so you have to rig up the fans they could have designed in the first place!
Glad it's working!