I'm considering buying a PicoPSU as it's recommended, but I'm wondering why almost all models they have seem ancient. They have 20-pin ATX connectors and often floppy drive connectors, no 4-pin CPU connectors, only one SATA. The descriptions on the mini-box website mention support for CPUs such as P...

That's very helpful, thank you. Do you think NotebookCheck's search will list all laptops available on the market that meet the criteria or perhaps some models may not be listed on the site at all or some of their features such as presence of a fan may not be? Once I have some more free time again I...

Let's make a list for anyone looking for a laptop that's fanless, but still reasonably powerful and good quality. I'll define modern mid- and high-end laptop as one that has a CPU that was released in 2019 or newer (10nm process or smaller) and that has a passmark score of at least 4000*, 11+ inch 1...

Which motherboards or chipsets (if all motherboards with a given chipset do) support undeclocking to lower heat production of the CPU? I'm mostly interested in Skylake and Kaby Lake (LGA1151) motherboards, but also Haswell (LGA1150). Alternatively, which motherboards support the TDP-down feature int...

Fe. does a Coffee Lake Celeron produce the same amount of maximum (CPU stress, GPU not taken into account) heat (for the heatsink to dissipate) as Coffee Lake Pentium, Haswell Celeron and Haswell Pentium? All of these CPUs in their 35W T versions. If not, how big are the differences, is it something...

Klusu, this works pretty well, although it changes colors somewhat which isn't ideal and also completely doesn't cooperate with redshift (blue light reducer) which disables the brightness change every 5 seconds, if I run it in infinite loop it will just flash bright light at me every 5 seconds. I wo...

Any idea how to do this on Debian 9 with GNOME? There's nothing in /sys/class/backlight. There's no xorg.conf or xorg.conf.d in /etc/X11. Doing xbacklight -set 50 does nothing. Same if I put Section "Device" Identifier "Intel Graphics" Driver "intel" Option "Backlight" "intel_backlight" EndSection i...

I can also buy 35W Ivy Bridge Celeron G1610T or Haswell Pentium T. I can buy another non-fanless heatsink and use it without a fan.

What I want to know is how much do the T versions differ thermally and if this heatsink can cool them adequately.

At least two PCI expansion slots. I'd be grateful for as many recommendations as possible. Price is a very important factor.

I'd be grateful for as many recommendations as possible. Price is a very important factor.

I'm only interested in heatsinks and I already have everything else bought.

I've read https://www.silentpcreview.com/stop_lcd_whine

It works for my monitor, but it's too bright. How can I lower brightness in Linux? I use Intel integrated graphics.

I'm thinking of buying Arctic Alpine 12 Passive and a full power Celeron G (Haswell, Skylake or Kaby Lake, they are just 0.2/0.3GHz higher clocked than the T 35W versions) and put them in Cooler Master Elite 110 without any fans inside (nothing producing much heat inside, no GPU, some HDD, fanless S...

Seriously, fans and ATX PSUs in a proffesional studio in 2018?! If you want to do audio work and care about the sound quality. Buy a fanless PC, you'll pay about the same as for a normal one, but it will have better sound characteristics. Buy one of those passive heatsink cases, they are very small ...

When I have my ear next to the back of the case (where the power cord goes) I hear loud coil whine. In this ear position it's difficult to distinguish Intel box cooler (even at its highest speed) from the PSU. In comparison to 90-120W laptop bricks it's louder and much more rich in detail, laptop br...

Say, I have Seasonic SS-400FL, but no Molex nor PCI-E cables for it, just 2 SATA cables. Is it a good idea to buy few of those SATA->Molex adapters and attach them to one of the SATA connectors,hen attach a Molex->PCIe adapter and connect GPU, fans, HDDs to these adapters? Is anything going to burn,...

Will CORSAIR RM550x or its older version RM550 be fully fanless in my system? I couldn't find any info on when the fan turns on in it... Even 20% * 550W is just 110W. Full ATX will probably be cheaper though. Does this picoPSU come with a power brick with efficiency level V? No info on that. And how...

The case is Cooler Master Elite 110. Sometimes with a fan or two, sometimes without any, even on the CPU, if Celeron G will be used, I'll put Arctic Passive (or another passive heatsink if there are any you recommend) on it.

Use case: NAS, ZFS, occasional extremely heavy torrenting.

I'm looking for a semi-passive PSU that I can be sure will always stay fanless in my machine. The machine will be sometimes running without any fans, so PSU's temp may be higher than with fans. The most power hungry it can ever get is this: Pentium G 54W 2xDDR3 4x3.5" HDD 1x140mm, 2x80mm fans mini-I...

Does anyone have any idea how I can attach this sort of a DC-DC board to Cooler Master Elite 110? http://chieftec.eu/en/psus/external-psu/cdp-120itx.html It's not simply a bigger ATX20pin plug like PicoPSU, but a small board that has to be attached to something in the case. This would be the most ef...

Is there a way to do higher-level checksumming for normal files of various type (any type) similarly comfortably (because the set of files constantly changes and is modified, moved etc., think of it as the disk you have in your PC)?

it's more important to use a server mobo and ECC RAM How is this going to help if my PC has non-ECC RAM? The correct file is sent to my PC, I edit it, my RAM flips a bit, I save it back to the NAS, NAS reports it as correct even though it has ECC. I lost data due to bad sectors a lot of times. Find...

This is not a torrentbox and those will be just a few percent max of the data on it for the majority of time. I will put there dozens of thousands of them once in a year for a few days/weeks, but that's all the heavy lifting torrent-wise. It's a NAS. I really want to know whether my other data is co...

mingv7v , encryption is very easy on resources, the performance hit is close to none. On Celeron J, I don't think it would be higher than 10% CPU usage. Celeron G is much faster than Celeron J. ECC won't prevent data corruption completely if other devices (like the PC you connect to the NAS) that m...

It's Poland. Some shops are allegro.pl, morele.net, komputronik.pl, proline.pl, skapiec.pl, ceneo.pl The OS will be Linux. I'm asking about the weight of the PSU solely because of mobility concerns, although I don't know if 3kg can make a noticeable discomfort without the unit at hand. The price of ...

I'm guessing they just didn't update this data/tested these specific newer units. This case is basically just a piece of metal in such a shape that you can put in there a thin mini itx motherboard and the heatsink extension will be exactly above the CPU. So what you want to do is go to the specs pag...

I forgot to add that BTRFS or ZFS and encryption will be used on this. Do you think one Antec 140mm is enough to cool 1-2 HDDs in this case or is it a good idea to use those 80mm slots too? From my experience fe. putting a 80mm fan at 6V directly on the HDD doesn't make the HDD cold to touch, it's s...

I looked around what cases are available and only two seem to be a choice for me: Cooler Master Elite 110 and Chieftec IX-01B / IX-03B. The Chieftec can hold 1 HDD, the CM 3 HDDs. Chieftec is extremely small, CM is bigger, but I don't think that should be a problem. I want the case to not be a probl...

It supports any Thin Mini ITX motherboard including those that support 7th and 8th generation Intel CPUs and anything that will be released in the future.

Go for Akasa Euler (cheaper than HDPlex) fanless case and a full power (not T) recent i3. You'll have more performance than with a NUC for a smaller price - a price similar to the one of a normal, loud tower pc - plus fanless and tiny. Seriously, I've done it.