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Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Fanless audiophile PC sells for close to $30,000 — music server features dual Xeon 10-core CPUs, 48GB RAM, 280GB Optane SSD, and 2TB secondary storage expandable to 24TB

www.tomshardware.com

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Fanless audiophile PC sells for close to $30,000 — music server features dual Xeon 10-core CPUs, 48GB RAM, 280GB Optane SSD, and 2TB secondary storage expandable to 24TB

www.tomshardware.com

Alphane Moon@lemmy.worldM to Hardware@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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    what a load of snake-oil bullshit lol

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works
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      Jesus. I thought it was for recording, at least.

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    Taiko says that “fewer and lower speed DIMMs are better for sound quality,” which is why it didn’t use the best RAM for gaming.

    And here I am, listening to the inferior sound of my gaming-RAM.

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      Ah, thats why i didnt make it big yet. its my sound inferior DDR5 RAM! Thanks!

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    Or you could just save your money and put a normal PC in another room where you can’t hear the fans.

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      I feel like I could build a nearly silent PC for 1/10th the price and serve a lot more than just audio from it, and still be comfortable with keeping it in the room with me

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        Literally just build a normal PC but use one of these big hear sinks instead of a fan: https://graphicscardhub.com/passive-cpu-cooler/

      • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        Noctua literally has a consumer grade fanless heatsink that is allegedly just as good as advertised for like 100 bucks. Find a quiet PSU and you’re basically done. Unless it needs a GPU which could be more problematic

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      This is exactly what I was going to say

      You can get fiber optic extenders for USB, video, networking. They can be spendy, like $1,000, but it’s a one-time purchase. A lot cheaper than this computer

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        • jet@hackertalks.com
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          Absolutely true, there are some real world scenarios where fiber has the advantage

          • Low/No electromagnetic interference
            • Radio labs
            • MRI techs
            • (audiophiles? maybe)
          • Low latency, long distance
            • The source computer can me many meters/km away
          • All in one device
            • One fiber pair can run the full KVM stack for a remote computer

          But yeah, for most scenarios, conventional cables are fine, —

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        Fanless PC cases cost about $400.

    • Mihies@programming.dev
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      Or just go with a fanless one, perhaps an ARM based or even a PC. 🤷‍♂️

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    For a such a price I would expect a larger Optane SSD (I am assuming you would use it for your boot/application drive).

    2TB base storage is also ridiculous for such a price, although you can fit a lot of music in 2TB even if you store everything in FLAC.

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      The optane is weird on multiple fronts, but what struck me was the ram. ONLY 48GB when you have dual CPUs, seems weird for something of this price.

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      That, and how they’re somehow able to take you from 2TB of additional storage to 64TB for a mere 2 grand… Something isn’t adding up

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    It only runs on triple-filtered HiFi high octane electricity

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    I am both disgusted and aroused

    • Heikki@lemm.ee
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      You can only get so hard/wet

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        The fact that I’m both at the same time is why I’m disgusted.

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    You can tell it’s high-end by the huge bank of filter capacitors.

  • renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net
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    These specs look like a leftover casserole of hardware.

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      Optane

      Xeon

      Yep, leftovers. I wonder if those mobos are server ones as well.

      Might be a good sell with upcycling. But power consumption on these is probably nuts.

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        Dual xeons on a non-server board?

        I doubt it…

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    Windows running RoonOS(Linux) in a docker? Thats why two Xeons?

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