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It does support ECC, but I don't understand its thermal design. Probably it's like NUCs, a small box for the sake of prettiness and a tiny-n-cheap fan that will be noisy.

It's a shame, because you can passively cool things like a i7-6700T these days without much effort and without ever falling into throttling [1]. Plus, Calyos is about to release a loop heat pipe that will be able to cool massive systems without any noise [2].

I wish someone like Apple or perhaps the new Microsoft had the vision to sell corporate desktops and workstations that did not suck noisewise. I imagine a little fanless Mac Mini running on Xeon would sell like hotcakes and would give Apple the chance to gain a further chunk of enterprise marketshare. But they don't seem to be interested.

[1] http://www.atlastsolutions.com/ultimate-fanless-mini-itx-pc-...

[2] http://www.calyos-tm.com/




They specifically mention acoustics in the (long) text about it. I would assume that means they tried to make it quiet. Whether I believe them or not is up in the air, as my last HP workstation was louder than hell.


Is hell particularly loud? I've never been there.


Airtop is silent, but it's rather large: https://airtop-pc.com/airtop/natural-airflow-technology/


Do you know if they have standard space for a discrete card? They only offer NVIDIA options, but I prefer AMD.


They have DIY variant without CPU and GPU installed. So you can use other GPUs. See http://fit-pc.com/download/airtop/documents/airtop-owners-ma...

Better contact their support for exact specification on the compatible size.




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