Introducing: MC001-BD - a PC that won't leave you cold
Lifting the metal side panel, we can see a nice, tidy interior. At the bottom of the machine is the processor and chipset, above them are the memory modules and then the GPU. The latter is obscured by the huge heat sink located at the top of the machine, behind the large cooling openings observed from the outside. As you can see the cooling is completely passive, no fan has been installed, which is not a faulty decision at all for an HTPC.
Cooling is an apparently well-thought-out system anyway. The warmer parts are also attached to the metal side panel with the help of a heat-conducting adhesive, so that it distributes the heat generated. The warm air emitted by the heat sink leaves the housing upwards in obedience to the laws of physics, and instead fresh and, of course, cooling air flows to the processor-chipset pair at the opening at the bottom of the machine.
It can be seen that the company used its experience in refrigeration in the design. It is a question of a solution that is pleasing to the eye that has performed in practice. Of course, we tried that too. Since gaming is not a priority for these machines, the measurement was performed while watching movies. During the measurements, we only examined the temperature now, as we are already aware of the performance of the Atom processors, we have already measured them in quite a few articles.
Before we get to the temperatures, let's say a few words about the noise made by the machine! Perhaps unsurprisingly, due to passive cooling, we don’t hear much noise by default, more specifically nothing. Very closely, the hard drive “sounds” a bit, but if we dare call it sound, you can imagine what kind of noise might be near the machine. The loudest unit is the Blu-ray Disc unit, which is sometimes heard while the disc is spinning. Fortunately, this is only true for the first half of the scan, from then on we won’t even notice it works.
During the trial, we played content packaged in Blu-ray and HD MKV. It can be said that neither the CPU nor the GPU has reached 80 degrees Celsius. This is a really good result. The metal side panel proved to be a useful help, as it was already possible to feel by hand which parts the larger heat-producing parts are located on.
After the test, let's see the specification of the machine, then evaluate it!
