Industrial PC on the cheap

Industrial PCs are extremely expensive, this particular unit offers an affordable alternative, provided you're comfortable with a slightly older CPU. Powered by an Intel i7-10710U processor and equipped with 16GB of RAM and a 512GB SSD, it offers ample performance for various industrial automation, control, and data acquisition tasks. Its extensive connectivity options include four LAN ports, four USB 3.0 ports, four USB 2.0 ports, six COM ports, eight GPIOs, dual HDMI, VGA, and a Type-C port, along with built-in WiFi for $619.99. 

Slim, fanless & powerful

"We are proud to announce our latest rack mount PC - based around Akasa’s Galileo TU3 Plus chassis. The chassis features a integrated fanless CPU cooler that dissipates the heat to a very large aluminium heatsink. It is compatible with Thin Mini-ITX motherboards and any of Intel’s 35W LGA1700 processors. It supports CPUs up to Intel’s Core i7-14700T, 64GB of SODIMM DDR4 memory and has support for up to four 2.5” drives. All of this is done in a 1U chassis, measuring just 43.6mm in height!"

Source: QuietPC 

Helix 520 Series promo video

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Banana (Pi) for scale

"Using a 5mm thick 50x50mm pure copper plate combined with the Thermalright AXP-90 X47 Full Copper heatsink, the BPI-R4 runs completely fanless. The CPU temperature consistently stays below 33°C at an ambient room temperature of 20°C."

Source: Banana Pi

The tiniest gaming rig

Courtesy of GPUSpecs

Next is Wildcat Lake

Intel Wildcat Lake is the upcoming series of low-power, budget-oriented CPUs designed for devices like entry-level laptops, Chromebooks, fanless mini-PCs, and embedded systems, following Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake series. Wildcat Lake will include Performance (P) cores (the same P-cores found in the more powerful Panther Lake series) and "Darkmont" Low-Power Efficient (LPE) cores. Wildcat Lake is expected to be manufactured using Intel's 18A process node, and TDPs should range from 6W to 15W. Get ready for a new wave of budget-friendly, low-power PCs, coming early 2026. 

Noctua NH-P1's 4th Anniversary

"Noctua’s NH-P1 is a unique fanless cooler that offers completely silent performance, at the cost of slightly reduced cooling power. You won’t look at this if you need every last bit of performance for overclocking, but rather if you’re a user who prefers quiet and has more common workloads. Even if you do run intense multi-core workloads, there won’t be much of a performance loss – as shown with our Cinebench R23 tests using AMD’s Ryzen 9 9950X3D.

At this time, not only is Noctua’s NH-P1 the strongest fanless solution available for common users – it is also the only one that is easily available for purchase. The $119 USD price tag might be difficult to swallow, but that’s the price of a niche product with strong performance."

Source: Tom’s Hardware 

An 8-Core fanless mini PC for your homelab?

Courtesy of Craft Computing

8TB M.2 SSDs are here

Corsair MP600 PRO XT 8TB / $909.99

TEAMGROUP MP44 8TB / $719.99

SABRENT 8TB Rocket 4 Plus / $1,099.99

Lexar 8TB NM790 / $684.99

WD_BLACK 8TB SN850X / $599.99 

Extreme Pi cooling

This old server heat sink, repurposed to passively cool a Raspberry Pi, exemplifies a core principle of green computing: going for low power CPUs and reusing existing hardware to minimize waste. Granted, it looks a little rough around the edges, but it's definitely unique-looking and most importantly completely silent.

Source: reddit