Ultra-Grade Quieter 4C launched

Following SE Grade (budget) and Business Grade versions of its mini PCs, MeLE launches an Ultra-Grade N150-powered Quieter 4C featuring premium eMMC storage and a 3-year warranty. Standard consumer eMMC hovers around 500 to 1,000 Program/Erase cycles. The Ultra-Grade Quieter 4C features industrial-grade TLC NAND rated for 3,000 cycles. Even at 20GB of writes per day, that’s over 52 years of endurance. The 8GB/128GB model is now listed for $590.99, the 8GB/256GB model retails for $628.99, and the 16GB/512GB configuration costs $901.99.

New CR-95C build

The legendary Nofan CR-95C is still keeping people happy, all these years later (it's still available from QuietPC). Here, the large CPU cooler is part of a music server housed in the Jonsbo V12 Micro-ATX case. Admittedly, natural convection doesn’t stand a chance in this sealed glass box, but at least we get to admire this beauty.

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Shuttle DL40N review

"The conservative power limits mean the DL40N is not the fastest system around, but we really enjoyed the oversized CPU heatsink which does not heat up excessively to affect the nearby M.2 slot where usually we have an SSD installed. We recommend going forward with a PCIe 3.0 SSD instead of 4.0 because of the lower dissipated heat and the supplied thick thermal pad can help with heat transfer to the 2.5’’ SSD/HDD tray. DL40N can be easily used for different tasks which have lower demands in terms of resources, edge computing, high-availability client/sever setups, digital signage, industrial control and more!"

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Minisforum S5 review

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i5-powered panel PC

This interesting 15.6-inch industrial touchscreen panel PC is designed as an all-in-one fanless computer for demanding environments. It features a 16:9 Full HD 1920×1080 display with a 10-point capacitive multi-touch screen protected by durable glass and an IP65-rated front panel for dust and water resistance. Its fanless aluminum design enables quiet, dust-resistant, low-maintenance operation suitable for continuous 24/7 use in factories, kiosks, and automation setups with vibration, dust, or oil present. The i5-1235U model featuring 16GB of RAM and a 256GB SSD is available for $819.99.

The original fanless computer

CNET reviews the NUC 16 Pro

"The Asus NUC 16 Pro is quite impressive for such a tiny PC. Our test sample made good use of its Intel Core Ultra X7 358H, dishing out CPU performance that competed with desktops several times its size. It even outpaced a desktop AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D in the Lenovo Legion T5 30AGB10 in Geekbench 6 and Cinebench R24, despite the latter machine having a sizable tower cooler.

The Asus NUC 16 Pro is an impressive little box for all its packing, albeit a very bland one with a drab, black plastic exterior. It squeezes everything into a 0.7-liter chassis weighing just 1.5 pounds, yet still finds room for two fans and a ton of ports. It would have been nice to see some dust filtration behind its vents, though. While the 16 Pro is perhaps the easiest-to-open computer I’ve come across, with a single latch holding its base and a lid that’s easy to pry free, the heatsinks remain inaccessible for cleaning."

Source: CNET 

Build a fanless PC in just 10 minutes

The Akasa Euler MX2 is available now in Europe.

The only fanless all-in-one PC

This unicorn features a 22" full HD LCD screen and is powered by the 6W Intel N200. The system is available with 8GB, 12GB, 16GB and even 32GB of RAM. Unfortunately there is a catch, storage is only 128GB UFS, a module found in cheap, entry-level phones. This computer does come with a 512GB external HDD, but that defeats the purpose of having a completely silent, all-solid-state PC. That said, at $549, it's a neat little setup for kids and seniors who just want to watch YouTube, check Facebook, and browse the web.  

Quiet enough for a bedroom

This impressive Proxmox machine was built using repurposed hardware to support infrastructure at a commercial mushroom farm. The system is housed in large heatsink case and is powered by a 54W Pentium Gold G5420 paired with a Gigabyte Z390 AORUS PRO motherboard and 32GB of DDR4 memory. For storage, it features a 256GB NVMe SSD dedicated to Proxmox VE and virtual machines, alongside two mirrored pairs of consumer SSDs including a 1TB ZFS mirror for telemetry history and a 500GB ZFS mirror for backups.

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