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the ravenbridge apu is attractive with 4 cores and gpu i am wondering will the 7nm die shrink allow for apu to go up to 8 cores since its 2x density i understand scaling isn't 100% perfect and then is it better to have 4 cores @ 7nm lower power or 8 cores @ 7nm and higher power I've read decent ana...

hi thanks for writing one issue i have had with going to higher resolution is everything shrinks text shrinks, icons shrink, everything is smaller and harder to read, and some programs don't look right, things aren't working quite right 4k now is quite affordable yeah 8k displays are extremely expen...

is the best way to have a fanless silent pc atx Is this a statement or a question? Would you kindly use capital letters and punctuation in your posts as it is difficult to follow unstructured text appearing on one line after another. " since SPCR has died and no longer does reviews. i know the seas...

8k displays are shipping and you can buy one is the improvement over 4k worth it for average uses? and how about windows 10 issues and re-sizing programs that were originally made for vga, like office 2003, which is what i prefer using is the hdmi and display port now standardized for 8k and do amd ...

thanks! i find this very informative since SPCR has died and no longer does reviews. i know the seasonic fanless requires the vents to be pointing up, but some dual chamber cases orient the vents and PSU sideways is the best way to have a fanless silent pc atx is seasonic fanless on the bottom of a ...

seasonic PRIME 600 Titanium Fanless :shock: :o PRIME 600 Titanium Fanless since its titanium it should be over 92% efficient its fanless can anyone verify no electronic coil noise of any kind reliable and works and runs very cool with very little heat does it have to be oriented with vents up or can...

Streacom and HDPlex make fanless cases also have some that support ATX last time i checked, you can contact them to see if the motherboard you are considering is supported. If you are looking for a higher end then, look into Calyos 0dB gamer / workstation PC looks "interesting" but in my mind asus ...

the ravenbridge apu is attractive with 4 cores and gpu

i am wondering

will the 7nm die shrink allow for apu to go up to 8 cores since its 2x density
i understand scaling isn't 100% perfect

and then is it better to have 4 cores @ 7nm lower power

or 8 cores @ 7nm and higher power

i know there are mini-itx form factors with heatpipe built into case. is there anything like that for atx cases, i know this is going to be immensely expensive, but is there any sort of custom design atx cases with heat pipe coolers built into the case and dumps heat out of the case? since different...

specifically 1 brand amd 1 product ryzen 4 cores vs 8 cores ? i'd imagine tdp of 8 cores is about 2x of 4 cores. this is spcr so tdp and silent cooling is an issue 8 cores though sounds like the future. the additional cost of 8 cores isn't too much, motherboard and memory is same more cores means mo...

to this day i'm enchanted with the mac g4 cube passive cooling via chimney.



with raven bridge apu and ssd and seasonic fanless psu its now possible to construct, build a purely silent true silent pc

Is Via x86 ever coming back to USA? i found there is chinese Zhaoxin for china only could they get samsung to use its 7nm manufacturing? and maybe license nvidia graphics, PowerVR or some other direct x 12 compatible i might be interested in via on a low budget with SMT x64 SSE AVX 4 or 8 core integ...

speaking of airflow

nofan has d/c the 95, only 80 is left

but i was envisioning

amd ravenbridge ap @ 7nm

nofan cpu cooler

seasonic titanic fanless

atx mid tower case with mesh design

no fans

no add in gpu card

nvme evo 970

CA_Steve wrote:On bare NVMe SSDs, it's usually just the controller that gets hot. If you don't want to buy a complete NVMe heatsink/heatspreader, you could just get a RAM chip heat sink with sticky thermal adhesive to put on the controller.

sounds like a good idea, but isn't heat pipe even better?

I've installed a couple of NVMe SSDs on some systems. I have run into temperature issues with them. At the very least, without some airflow, they can get over 70C. On one, we started seeing data corruption when it was running at 75C. I didn't install any heat sinks on them but added some additional...

interesting suggestion

i still have a couple of socket 370 aluminum and copper heat sinks from the celeron 300a days

not sure how to fix it to ssd but rubber band or possibly cable ties

don't want to crack it obviously.

Abula wrote:

dan wrote:how do you attach them? can u use glue?

no, it has some sort of clamps that attach from the top to the bottom.

any clamps for sale?

what are good motherboards to use, atx ?

how do you attach them? can u use glue?

do nvme ssd drives need heatsink ?

to keep them cool?

are there good products or can i use old socket 370 coolers i have around and if so how do i attach them without voiding any warranty?

i still use my core2 duo from way back when socket 775 and ddr2

i eventually plan to migrate to amd ryzen2 or 3, when they go 7nm

i also want ddr5 and pci express 4 or 5

silentpcreview.com

we knew and love seems dead.

is it ever coming back?

or has technology made this dead

now with ssd

for me some surprises

asus mother i have the p5k requires a fan , no fan it doesn't work.

nofan 95 is discontinued

i don't know if anyone cares but

nonfan and sileptc says the nonfan cr-95 is continued

so its being sold for $500+

so nofan only makes 1 model cooler

cr-80

not clear if it is am4 compatible

is Nofan discontinuing the cr-95? they used to sell for $100 on amazon they are selling from 1 retailer for $500 on reddit someone said nofan cr-95 does NOT support am4 newegg is no longer carrying nofan the cr-80 is still sold at amazon for a more reasonable $50 not clear if it supports AM4 out of ...

thanks, the thing about nofan 95c is it is NOT compatible with am4

i think nofan 80 is compatible with am4, with a bracket

how does the case with built in heat pipe how can it work when a cpu socket can be placed in different locations with different motherboards?

What's the highest TDP for fanless passive cooling? in an apu-cpu the amd ryzen 5 2400g is tdp 65 watts there is a mobile version that is 35 watts with say something like nofan, combined with a seasonic fanless titanium but no fans, no case fans no power supply or cpu fans, just SSD's and ddr4 for t...

Vicotnik wrote:The drive itself, its firmware has stuff going on. It usually goes on for a while and then quiets down in my experience.

ok. if i get an ssd will it also be re-writing the ssd and if so doesn't that reduce useful lifespan?

my hard drive, even when i just do no thing, is always making sounds like accessing the hard drive sounds similar to when data is being transferred now i looked it up and i turned off indexing but it still makes noise. any ideas how i can quiet it down? standard 7200rpm samsung spinpoint nidec motor

Luke M wrote:It's a two platter, shingled recording drive.

2 platter is better than 3.



why are 3tb drives not 3 platter and 9.5mm?