[conspire] Home Servers

[Tony Godshall]

I bought a few of these fanless in this past year.  They are running great
so far for the people who must have x86

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09TGPWNB5/



On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 13:36 Rev Anon <Rev_Anon at atheist.com> wrote:

> 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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