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N100 though allows the PC to be fanless, which is attractive to those of us who hate noises that persist all day (more precisely, that contain a frequency that
by hollerith 3y ago
N100 though allows the PC to be fanless, which is attractive to those of us who hate noises that persist all day (more precisely, that contain a frequency that persists all day, fatiguing the part of the inner ear specialized for that frequency).
- gjsman-1000 3y agoI personally own one of these, and unless you are running it with a very intense load, it's pretty inaudible. Active cooling on a 35W part is not very loud.
- hollerith 3y agoI'm glad that computer worked for you, but I bought a computer once because multiple people online reported that the model (Intel NUC8BEH) was almost completely silent, but ended up hating it because of its cooling fan's constant whining noise even though the noise was not loud, e.g., not loud enough to interfere with my understanding someone talking.
- ulnarkressty 3y ago+1 for fanless. I got one of these optiplexes as they were recommended everywhere. They are indeed more powerful but very closed down. For example one cannot even control the fan speed on them and I hear it whine at idle all day long. If I try to unplug the fan from the motherboard, the whole computer won't boot. Also, what I could gather from a youtube presentation is that they are electricity hogs (compared to a 5W Pi) unless you get a >9th gen box which has some better low power states (which may or may not be supported by your distro).
- jsheard 3y agoThe older generation thin-client PCs also tend to only support SATA M.2 SSDs, which are becoming a liability now with the prices rising sharply relative to NVMe due to lack of demand, especially if you want a model with DRAM. Just about anything with an N100 will support NVMe, so you can load them up with a 2TB SSD pretty cheaply.