7mo 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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what a load of snake-oil bullshit lol
- Jesus. I thought it was for recording, at least.
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.
- Ah, thats why i didnt make it big yet. its my sound inferior DDR5 RAM! Thanks!
Or you could just save your money and put a normal PC in another room where you can't hear the fans.
- 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
  
  Literally just build a normal PC but use one of these big hear sinks instead of a fan: https://graphicscardhub.com/passive-cpu-cooler/
  
  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
- 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
  
  Or just... longer cables. Ethernet is already designed for long cable runs, and USB and video cables are easy to find in lengths over 10m (though good ones are a bit pricey). You could even make do with standard cables if you set up against an interior wall and pass cables through the wall to the PC in the adjacent room.
  
  Fanless PC cases cost about $400.
- Or just go with a fanless one, perhaps an ARM based or even a PC. 🤷‍♂️
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.
- 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.
- 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
It only runs on triple-filtered HiFi high octane electricity
I am both disgusted and aroused
- You can only get so hard/wet
  
  The fact that I'm both at the same time is why I'm disgusted.
These specs look like a leftover casserole of hardware.
- 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.
  
  Dual xeons on a non-server board?
  I doubt it…
You can tell it's high-end by the huge bank of filter capacitors.
Windows running RoonOS(Linux) in a docker? Thats why two Xeons?

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