Arctic Cooling Shows Off Fanless Media PC
Arctic Cooling makes a silent PC.
Arctic Cooling, known mostly for its cooling products, introduced at Computex this year a small form factor media center PC it calls the MC001 that packs an Intel Atom D525, ATI 5430 512 MB graphics card and 4 GB of RAM.
Helping its claims as a media PC is that the MC001 is completely passively cooled, meaning that you'll never hear any fan noise at all while watching a video.
The other specifications include 7.1-channel audio output, two USB 3.0 ports located on the front, IR receiver, 4 in 1 card reader, VGA, HDMI, Ethernet, and 5 additional USB ports at the rear panel. As an option, you can install a DVB-T/DVB-C.
There are four different versions of the MC001 which are differentiated by storage options:
• 500 GB HDD and DVD-RW 24X
• 500 GB HDD and Blu-Ray 4x
• SSD 120 GB SATA II and DVD-RW 24X
• SSD 120 GB SATA II and Blu-Ray 4x
All models come with Windows 7 Home Premium 32-bit. Addition accessories are an IR remote and IR keyboard, but thankfully each one comes with an HDMI cable.
Prices start from $249 and can head north of the $600 mark with the SSD and Blu-ray options. Look for it in the coming weeks.





I like the last throw-in pic
I agree as well, but i think it would lead to more heat and in something that small (ps2 slimish by the looks) less heat always helps.
I like the last throw-in pic
Arctic Cooling is really pushing the whole cool theme, even their models are sporting clothes to sport the blazing heat.
The taller one is really, really cute, but the shorter one is even cuter.
The picture sizes in this article even speaks for itself. Taller one is cute.
No thanks. I would rather screw the girl.
Yep. The Arctic Cooling girls are giving the Samsung girls a run for the money.
eh?
On their website they list $308.79 (might be because I'm accessing the site from Europe) but the price is for a barebone system without HDD, RAM or OS (which is fine. Linux apparently makes for a great home theatre system)
The cheapest complete system is $585.15.
Wonder how hot it runs if the graphics card is decoding high-bitrate H.264 video while the CPU is doing other stuff.
Fanless design is nice, but I don't see what's wrong with adding a fan.
My core2duo HTPC has one fan but it's completely inaudible from more than 20cm away even while decoding H.264 and running a Minecraft server in the background.
The real noise problem for HTPCs are external hard drives. Best solution might be NAS.