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It does support ECC, but I don't understand its thermal design. Probably it's like NUCs, a small box for the sake of prettiness and a tiny-n-cheap fan that will
by nextos 10y ago
It does support ECC, but I don't understand its thermal design. Probably it's like NUCs, a small box for the sake of prettiness and a tiny-n-cheap fan that will be noisy.
It's a shame, because you can passively cool things like a i7-6700T these days without much effort and without ever falling into throttling [1]. Plus, Calyos is about to release a loop heat pipe that will be able to cool massive systems without any noise [2].
I wish someone like Apple or perhaps the new Microsoft had the vision to sell corporate desktops and workstations that did not suck noisewise. I imagine a little fanless Mac Mini running on Xeon would sell like hotcakes and would give Apple the chance to gain a further chunk of enterprise marketshare. But they don't seem to be interested.
[1] http://www.atlastsolutions.com/ultimate-fanless-mini-itx-pc-core-i7-skylake-8gb-ddr4-250gb-ssd-asus-z170i/ http://www.atlastsolutions.com/ultimate-fanless-mini-itx-pc-...
[2] http://www.calyos-tm.com/ http://www.calyos-tm.com/
- SwellJoe 10y agoThey specifically mention acoustics in the (long) text about it. I would assume that means they tried to make it quiet. Whether I believe them or not is up in the air, as my last HP workstation was louder than hell.
- jonloldrup 10y agoIs hell particularly loud? I've never been there.
- shmerl 10y agoAirtop is silent, but it's rather large: https://airtop-pc.com/airtop/natural-airflow-technology/ https://airtop-pc.com/airtop/natural-airflow-technology/
- microcolonel 10y agoDo you know if they have standard space for a discrete card? They only offer NVIDIA options, but I prefer AMD.
- shmerl 10y agoThey have DIY variant without CPU and GPU installed. So you can use other GPUs. See http://fit-pc.com/download/airtop/documents/airtop-owners-manual.pdf http://fit-pc.com/download/airtop/documents/airtop-owners-ma... Better contact their support for exact specification on the compatible size.