Given that all electrical components produce some noise, to me my brick is never audible, at least where i sit on, you can hear yours? When I use the pc during the day, only when my ear is near it. When the pc is turned off and it's night (it's quiet in the room), I can hear it anywhere in this roo...

The pc: i3 3245 2x4GB DDR3L Intel 730 SSD Gigabyte B85TN thin mini itx USB audio interface, mouse & keyboard It's a fanless machine (akasa euler) powered by a laptop power brick. I've been running this since I bought it 3 to 4 years ago. The power brick I used was a used HP 90W efficiency level V on...

Wasn't the consensus here that TDP values are bogus? It seems to me they raised the TDP value mostly to signify how faaast the CPU is since people often consider high power equal to high performance. Anyway, is there any real data on this? If not direct Ivy Bridge - Coffee Lake comparisons (both i3 ...

I own a fanless PC with i3-3245 (the most power hungry Ivy Bridge i3), this is the most that my cooling system can take. The radiator case gets hot in summer. How does Coffee Lake i3-8100 or i3-8350K compare to that given it has 4 cores instead of 2? Is its power usage similar, higher or lower? Does...