Supermicro and Calyos present a totally passive team

Robert Sole 8 January 2017

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Supermicro and Calyos develop a completely passive team designed for gaming, which has been officially presented at CES 2017.

The alliance between companies usually offers very different solutions to what we are used to, this is the case of Supermicro and Calyos, which have been unique to develop a totally passive and silent gaming equipment in a mini-ITX format. This compact, high-performance solution was unveiled at CES 2017 as an alternative solution to today's fan-laden equipment, which is just as powerful and efficient, but without the least noise.

This chassis is based on a large number of heatpipes of a size much larger than what we are used to and which are accompanied by a large number of aluminum fins on the sides and the upper area, in order to achieve optimal and efficient cooling of the heat. without the need to depend on fans. These heatpipes dissipate heat from the graphics card and the processor, the two main components that generate heat in a computer.

Passive dissipation systems are normally used in entry-level and mid-range graphics cards, which are the ones that best allow this type of dissipation and in terms of processors, this is usually used in embedded equipment, such as miniPCs, above all, since they usually have low consumption processors that really allow configurations with passive dissipation.

For this equipment, an Intel i5 7500 processors from the Kaby Lake family have been chosen, which has a TDP of 65W, in addition to opting for an NVIDIA GTX 1060 graphics card, a graphics card that we can find in the market in different variants with passive dissipation. We must remember that this type of system requires chassis with good air flow, since if the internal air flow is bad, the heat dissipation is not efficient and we could have problems.

We do not know when this team will hit the market, but they have announced that the price will be around € 1150, something that is quite expensive if we consider that for that price we can have a team with a better performance processor and a GTX 1070.