There’s an urban legend in Korea that sleeping in a room with fans will kill you. “Fan death” is widely believed by the South Korean population to cause death either by somehow asphyxiating the victim or literally chilling them to death while they sleep. And it’s not just something neurotic middle aged mothers believe in – it’s so ingrained into the minds of Koreans that the government and medical authorities have listed fan death as one of the nation’s five most serious risks to Koreans during the summer.

But if a fan used to cool a room is dangerous, then surely a gaming pc with case fans, CPU and GPU fans is equally if not more life threatening? Aiming to cater to this market; enter eccentric Korean company nofan corporation.

Nofan manufactures weird and wonderful fanless computer components including the ridiculous looking CR-95C – which, while unusual and stupidly big, is possibly the most effective passive cpu cooling solution you can get hold of. It can cool overclocked high end processors completely passively due to it’s massive 217m² of heat dissipation – but with a 18cm diameter and height of nearly 15cm, its compatibility is pretty limited.

Along with this they manufacture chassis designed to function completely passively, with ventilation just for the purpose of allowing convection to work effectively for your internal, fanless components. A fanless PSU and apparently some fanless VGA coolers are also in development.

If I’m being honest I would make space for components like these if I thought falling asleep while gaming had a chance of suffocating me.