Cooling
The cooling system of the hush is really where it excels over other SFF
PC's and Hush have gone for completely passive system. This means no fans
or active cooling of any sort. There are several parts of a computer that require
cooling, most importantly the CPU, then there is the Northbridge on
the motherboard and then the hard disk. Now normally on the Via EPIA M-9000
the CPU is cooled by a small heatsink with an 40mm fan. Hush have taken
this off and thrown it away as it's far too noisy. To replace the original
cooling the heatsink has been replaced by a solid aluminium heatsink with
a heatpipe that is then attached to the side of the case. This means any
heat is transferred to the case and is then cooled by the use of the fins
on the outside of the case.
The system appears effective and the cooling fins hardly get warm to the touch and the temperatures at load can be seen from this picture below.
Load temperature: 48 degrees Centigrade
Idle temperature: 24 degrees Centigrade
(Note load temperature taken after running a loop demo of 3DMark 2001)
Within the system there are no fans - this means silence, a joy to behold
after sitting next to a delta fan or other such noisy system.
