On Tue, 15 May 2018 21:58:20 -1000 david <gnome@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >Silent/fanless probably wouldn't work here. Hawaii's average temp is a >bit warmer than the UK, and we have no air conditioning. > >Mine used to have a fanless power supply. It stayed reasonably cool >(until it died) but contributed nothing to cooling the array of hard >drives that are in the box. There are two very large fans in the case which were barely moving, and also a very slow one on the CPU heatsink (not the default AMD one). When I did that Rosegarden compile (all 8 CPUs pegged) the CPU fan moved just a sniff faster. >> The socket will take a Ryzen 7 and the PSU and heatsink are more than capable. >> I doubt whether I'll bother though the performance is better than my needs for >> the foreseeable future :) > >Yah, but I like to make large panoramas and the software I use supports >multicore/multithread CPUs very well. A Ryzen 7 or Threadripper would do. :) > I would think so - that's where these really shine, but it's rather overkill for me :) -- Will J Godfrey http://www.musically.me.uk Say you have a poem and I have a tune. Exchange them and we can both have a poem, a tune, and a song. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
