The Noiseless PC That Stays Out of Sight

[@vprwave]

If it has good support (uefi not clamped down and updates), that's a great product. I wouldn't call it expensive either. If I add mb 150+cpu 210+ram32 100+ssd 80+psu 50 (today's consumer prices), I land at 590 barebone without case & W11 but with noise. I'm all in for low/zero noise, question is if the cpu downclocks quick due to passive cooling. 65tdp is plenty more than alternative passive cooled units.

[@KevinMuldoon]

Hi Vprwave. I need to put my hands up on this one and say you're 100% right. I did a quick search on prices before the video, but I must have got different results back at that time. Upon further inspection, the prices are actually good. In pounds, the 5500GT appears to be £100 in the UK for the CPU and it's around £150 for the 5700G. The Senza is around £414 for the 5500GT and £497 for the 5700G (at current exchange rates). If we take the 5700G, as an example, pre built PCs with the 5700G and vega 8 graphics appear to be the same price at around £500. As you rightly point out, that's £500 for a big PC with fans instead of a noiseless solution. Regular mATX and ATX builds with the 5700G do have the advantage of adding graphics cards and other pcie cards later, but like for like, the Senza is a much better solution if you're adding cards later. 👍

[@Filmmaker809]

Love it Kevin, perfect for my Mum who hates technology.

[@KevinMuldoon]

Yeah it's quite a fun idea. It's essentially a single board computer with a massive heatsink wrapped around it. It's still perhaps a bit too expensive for what it is due to the lack of Thunderbolt connection. As that limits how you expand it.

[@Filmmaker809]

@@KevinMuldoon Looks amazing. But a tiny wee bit expensive.

[@cr0ft-2k]

I recently replaced my Internet-router. The machine I bought to do that has an N100 CPU, 16 gigs of RAM and an SSD. It has several HDMI outs, a buttload of USB outs including some red 10 gig, a sum total of 4 2.5 gig Ethernet ports - and it's fanless. It's basically just a big heat sink with a PC underneath. I virtualized it with XCP-NG and it has two of the Ethernet ports passed through to a pfSense instance. The other two are used for a couple of other lightweight virtual machines. I could easily bolt that underneath my desk too, and it cost a third of this. So this seems underspecced and too expensive all at once. I solved the big PC box part with 5 meter display cables and a shelf off to the side instead, and long USB extensions to the USB hubs under and on top of my table. For home use my PC is used heavily for gaming, which implies a huge GPU, which means I need some kind of larger case anyway. It's just made to be as quiet as possible and off to the side.

[@KevinMuldoon]

Hey Croft. Those AMD Ryzen CPUs are a lot more capable than the N100, but I do agree that this PC is a little overpriced for the specs you get. Plus I'm not convinced about the panel that comes included. I'd rather have a Thunderbolt 3, 4 or 5 port, as I could then attach my own hub and not be forced to use their selection of ports. Plus it would add egpu support too. I've had a look at some of those networking style computers myself as I considered changing my router setup to integrate 10Gbe better. I'll definitely experiment with pfSense and OpenSense in the future. How are you finding pfSense? Kevin

[@jirimasarik]

Where can we buy the PCIE extension card ?

[@KevinMuldoon]

I'm not sure which one you're referring to, but pcie cards are available in most tech shops.

[@jirimasarik]

@@KevinMuldoon I search for the IOT-PXN V1.0 SATA/NVME M.2 PCIE board i was not able to find it anywhere.