Arctic announces passive cooled Systems with OpenELEC installed
05 Feb 2013
We are pleased to announce that we have a new partner - Arctic and more specifically, their MC001 platform (EU Model, US Model) which is an ideal partner for OpenELEC.
Arctic is also known for their cooling solutions, with this experiences they developed a fully passive cooled Entertainment System - and OpenELEC delivers the optimal Multimedia OS for their systems.
I hope there is a version two down the road as I'm due for an upgrade and this look like a great replacement.
I have mine horizontally (with metal down). I would get the BIOS thermal warning beeps after a few hours of use. I had some rubber feet around, so I put those under it. That raised it off the shelf about 1/4" and I no longer have the thermal warnings. You could also probably run it with the metal on top as that is where the bulk of the heat is transfered (vs the other plastic side).
I'm quite happy with it.
"In 2001 Arctic Cooling was founded in Switzerland by Magnus Huber and Gebhard Scherrer. As the company name suggested, in the past, the business focused entirely on computer cooling solutions. Today, in order to expand the business into other areas especially in consumer electronics, by 2010, it began to develop a diverse range of products that spans beyond cooling into computer peripherals, audio products and home entertainment PCs. For this reason, Arctic Cooling was changed to ARCTIC in 2010."
so there is nothing wrong there, and as usual the companys goes there where they can produce better and more effective.
You can't expect the production in Europe.From wiki:
One question that I have is regarding the cooling. Since these are passive they rely on thermal currents to create the airflow etc (as can be seen in their diagrams). Every picture they show of the unit is in teh vertical position.
Does anyone have theirs sitting falt and if so is it cooling well enough ot getting hot?
An eralier post mentioned that DTS-MA and AC3-HD was not supported with the AMD GPU. Is this the case still or can we actually get the higher audio passed-through with this box?
Thanks
Mick
one is systemwide and the other one resides in exactly your /storage/.xbmc/userdata directory. The systemwide will be overriden.
If you update from 3.0 to 4.0 or something, it could be that some settings are ported.
David.P wrote:
Thanks
seems that it is these differences then:
Regarding the "advancedsettings.xml": I have changed some settings there as well. If I update OE (or switch to a different build by providing the respective files in the "Update" folder of OE): will I lose my personal advancedsettings, or will they somehow be merged automatically?
Or should it be only the Arctic branding on the bootlogo?
Does this help?: openelec.tv/forum/41-supported-hardware/...ions?start=102#65168
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