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One of the big selling points of the mini is that it's really quiet. Does anyone with actual experience know how the NUC compares? From what I've read it's sign
by Joeri 10y ago
One of the big selling points of the mini is that it's really quiet. Does anyone with actual experience know how the NUC compares? From what I've read it's significantly louder, which is not what you want from a living room PC.
- analog31 10y agoFor the living room PC, I recently went even further downscale and replaced a wheezing old desktop box with a fanless mini-PC running Win10. It solves the problem of when both kids have homework at the same time. The only software on it is Chrome, since the kids do all of their stuff in the cloud. Oddly, it's the end of an era: The first computer I've owned that I'm not tempted to install MS Office on.
- remir 10y agoWhy not go with a Chromebox or Chromebit instead? Seems like the perfect solution for your kids and no maintenance for you.
- analog31 10y agoThis is certainly a possibility, or even plain Linux. For myself, I'd like to be able to run Jupyter/Python, but I think this must be possible on a Chrome machine.
- lebrad 10y agoI have a 2011 Mac Mini and the fan gets annoyingly loud when under load. I was also annoyed by the fan in my NUC so I put it in a fanless case. It's dead quiet, and stays cool enough to run under load without throttling.
- Joeri 10y agoI have a late 2009 mini, and the fan is never loud, not even after sustained load. That's the thing holding me back from replacing it.
- ysleepy 10y agoI have a NUC5i3RYH and you can (I have) set the fan control curve in the bios so that the fan stays off until the CPU reaches 75°C. It is completely silent until you do some gpu/cpu intensive stuff for some time. It is a lot better than my previous MSI cubi which had the fan always running and had a much mor annoying noise.