News Cirrus7 Rolls Out Fanless AMD Ryzen-Powered Mini-STX PC

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Cirrus7 announces the brand's new incus A300 Mini-STX PC, which is available for preorder.

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[joeblowsmynose]

A case that doubles as the heatsink ... I like the idea. Reminds me of Confederate Motorcycles - they like to make the frames of their bikes more functional - the gas tank and oil tank are a part of the frame (with even cool side windows to see the oil and gas sloshing around inside the frame)

Anyway ... back to the tech world, I love the concept of making everything multi-functional as possible.

I wonder though, how warm the case might get after some heavy load - hopefully cool enough you can still comfortable plug and unplug peripherals? I could see it potentially getting a bit toasty.

 

[twotwotwo]

That cheapish base model could be neat as a silent, more flexible option to drive a TV (vs. the usual sticks and set-top boxes).

Re: quiet AMD STX machines, I'm writing this on an STX DeskMini A300 with a 3200G's stock cooler (with the shroud taken off so it can be crammed in there) and the "Quiet" BIOS setting. I can hear it if the room's otherwise silent. But it's quiet and consistently so! The NUCs I used before revved the fans with minimal provocation (animated GIFs in work Slack 😛). Although this chip has a 65W TDP, in practice it seems like it takes heavy multithreaded/GPU load to stress the cooling. I'm not gaming; that would probably push it harder.

The less sketchy way to do something like this is probably to get a low-profile Noctua cooler or such; I used the stock one because I had it and was cheap and impatient and it (barely) fit.