Streacom have announced that they'll be hosting a booth at Computex with CALYOS, where they'll be showing the fruits of their labors on the long awaited SG10 passive-cooled chassis. If you're unfamiliar with the story of the SG10: back in late 2016 CALYOS made waves in the tech sphere with a novel new passively cooled ATX chassis prototype called the NSG S0. Their passive design relied on phase-change evaporator blocks and 'Loop Heat Pipe' runs out to condenser-finstack cooling zones that consumed the entire rear and front panels of the chassis to cool the GPU and CPU. The total thermal dissipation of this design was estimated at the time to allow for up to 600 W of heat, with final numbers to be determined after the design had been finalized. CALYOS opened a Kickstarter for the NSG S0 in early 2017 which attracted 461 backers and a quarter million Euro to fund the project goal of €150K. Many of the top contributors were told they would be receiving the finished NSG S0 by the end of 2017. A promise that fell immediately flat as the chassis never materialized for backers of the project. Dozens of project updates, excuses, executive changeovers, private funding campaigns, and empty promises finally led to Streacom being involved as the experienced party to redesign and deliver a product on the initial NSG S0 premise.
Streacom joined the project in 2020, 3 years after the original expected delivery window of the NSG S0, and appears to have carried CALYOS's original idea out of the depths of Kickstarter failure oblivion. This is no longer the NSG S0, and backers of the original Kickstarter may likely never get what they originally paid for, but Streacom did promise some concessions for CALYOS's original customers; customized versions of the SG10, 20 free units to the Kickstarter community, and a discounted price for campaign backers (who already paid full price or more for the original NSG S0 all those years ago). Streacom had no part in the initial failure of the NSG S0 and appears to be trying to offer as much recompense as they can. Their SG10 is expected to feature a fairly radical new physical design but retain a roughly 600 W thermal dissipation capacity, with the new design aiming for 195 W for the CPU and 420 W for the GPU at an ambient temperature of 35° Celsius. We can only hold our collective breath and hope the SG10 really exists and doesn't follow the same fate of the NSG S0. Below are the only public teasers yet released for the redesigned SG10.
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Streacom joined the project in 2020, 3 years after the original expected delivery window of the NSG S0, and appears to have carried CALYOS's original idea out of the depths of Kickstarter failure oblivion. This is no longer the NSG S0, and backers of the original Kickstarter may likely never get what they originally paid for, but Streacom did promise some concessions for CALYOS's original customers; customized versions of the SG10, 20 free units to the Kickstarter community, and a discounted price for campaign backers (who already paid full price or more for the original NSG S0 all those years ago). Streacom had no part in the initial failure of the NSG S0 and appears to be trying to offer as much recompense as they can. Their SG10 is expected to feature a fairly radical new physical design but retain a roughly 600 W thermal dissipation capacity, with the new design aiming for 195 W for the CPU and 420 W for the GPU at an ambient temperature of 35° Celsius. We can only hold our collective breath and hope the SG10 really exists and doesn't follow the same fate of the NSG S0. Below are the only public teasers yet released for the redesigned SG10.
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