[conspire] Home Servers

[Rev Anon]

I just finished the upgrade from my old dell optiplex to a SER7
Bee-Link, Ryzen 7840.  It's a fraction of the weight, I put it on the
backside of one of my monitors(3) and it's totally silent and faster
than expected even better video.  It does have a fan as I felt a small
breeze coming from it, can't hear it though.  The old dell was blasting
a hurricane quite often, helped to keep me awake.  I suspect the
power-savings on the electric bill will pay for this upgrade in a few
months.  Now I can even clear-off the desk I haven't seen in years.

On 3/22/24 10:27, Don Marti wrote:
> On 3/21/24 12:19, Nick Moffitt wrote:
>> On 20Mar2024 10:45am (-0700), Rick Moen wrote:
>>> Don Marti says separately mentions an intriguing Framework Laptop
>>> conversion kit revolves around a motherboard with a AMD Ryzen
>>> 7040-series CPU/GPU chip, which I was prepared to dismiss as
>>> stupendously overblown for a home server.  As it turns out, the TDP* is
>>> 35-54W, which is... not actually horrible.  _But_, still needs active
>>> cooling.
>>
>> I have a framework 13 with the previous generation of Intel
>> motherboard.  If I upgrade to the lower-power AMD board, I'll need to
>> get new RAM, so the board in this thing will probably become a closet
>> server of some variety.
>>
>> But the need for fans is even higher on this thing.  I have it
>> throttled to an inch of its life, and it still gets warmer than I
>> want.  That's why I covet the Ryzen upgrade, although I'm unemployed
>> at present and don't have the budget to justify such a purchase.
>
> On the new Framework 16 it looks like the mainboard (with heat pipes)
> is a separate module from the fans. You need fans if you want to run a
> 35-54W board in a laptop with a reasonable weight, but if you're
> building a media server PC that you put on your stereo rack once and
> never move, a big heavy aluminum case with heat sink fins and no fan
> is more badass than a sheet metal case with a fan.
>
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