On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
I was using a large Lenovo Y70-70 laptop as a pseudo-desktop
machine and additional monitor. It's quite powerful, but its
fans would run at all times. Getting really tired of that, I
googled for the better part of an afternoon for "fanless
desktop" and it turns out it's much harder to find one than I'd
initially thought. (Slow fanless machines are easy to find, but
I was looking for one as powerful as any desktop.)
At about the time I was ready to give up I found an obscure
site of an Israeli company that claimed to make a real i7
fanless machine. It was releases very recently, too, so I'm
thinking it might be of interest to some others.
So I got it from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CP4S15E.
I fitted it with 8 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD. It's more expensive
than a traditional desktop of the same configuration, but as
soon as you turn it on, you know where that extra money went.
(Speaking of money, ironically, the extra expenditure has had
an unexpected return: I occasionally daytrade, and when I do I
need CNBC on. That made the laptop's fans make even more noise
than usual, so I was avoiding it. Nowadays I can keep CNBC on
no problem, which allowed me to handily cover the extra
expense.)
I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend) and it
works swimmingly. The handling of multiple desktops is just
awesome. The one thing I don't like about the machine is it
always powers the discrete graphics card, which I don't use.
Their engineers (who've been very active to respond to my
emailed questions) said a future BIOS upgrade will allow
powering off the card.
Thought this might help others looking for a fanless dekstop.
Andrei
You give talks about CPU technologies, optimization techniques
etc. how did you not know that liquid cooling exist :) Or that is
not what you wanted?
