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Fair enough. My main ergonomic requirement for a workstation is zero noise at rest, and reasonable otherwise. I'm interested in seeing what I can get in form fa
by rch 10y ago
Fair enough. My main ergonomic requirement for a workstation is zero noise at rest, and reasonable otherwise. I'm interested in seeing what I can get in form factor though.
- intrasight 10y agoMy goal as well. I think that I assumed (wrongly) that these small form factor computers would be more quiet than a tower.
- tcpekin 10y agoYeah, I'm pretty sure the rule of thumb is that standard towers can be quieter because unless the SFF computers are passively cooled, larger towers can have larger fans spinning at a slower RPM to move the same amount of air, as well as have larger radiators.
- roel_v 10y agoWhat I did (but I'll admit this is not an option in many cases) is to move my workstation into a rack in the basement, with 20m DisplayPort cables connecting the monitors and a 20m usb3 extender cable hooking up a usb hub on the desk for keyboard, mouse, usb storage etc. Let the computer be loud there - noise has become a non-issue when selecting parts. It has a gtx1070 GPU which gets quite noisy under load (gpgpu processing). All 'workstations' I had in the past, like from Dell, got quite load under load, and had (baseline) loud power supplies as well. I do need access to the power button more often than I thought, so I'll have to wire the front panel power button to a button on my desk.
- intrasight 10y agoA similar strategy I am considering. Get a fanless NUC case from Akasa [http://www.akasa.com.tw http://www.akasa.com.tw] and remote desktop to the "real" computer in the basement.