[conspire] Home Servers

[Tony Godshall]

"This Quieter3Q 81E tiny tower pc is equipped with a more powerful N5105
processor than J4125, pre-installed 64-bit Windows 11 Pro OS, support
Windows 10 Pro, Linux, Ubuntu, Debian. built-in 8GB LPDDR4 RAM, 128GB eMMC,
with a Micro SD card slot can be added separately to expand the storage up
to 1TB, internal M.2 2280 PCIe SSD expandable up to 5TB (not compatible
with SATA interface)‎."


On Fri, Mar 22, 2024, 13:43 Tony Godshall <apgodshall at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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