My last update was in 2019 when I "upgraded" to a i7-9700T, and last year I put in a silent GPU card, but the performance improvement is barely noticeable, IMHO. It still does everything I throw at it perfectly well. I may review next year, mostly because I have fun doing it (while fending off the cat, who tries to collaborate).
Why a fan if you can go fanless?
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. I have a 1300w psu in my machine, to make sure it can handle the continuous power draw, and the transients. I've not seen anything with that kind of capacity that's fan less.
Indeed, I see why it wouldn't, that's a lot of Watts. I try to keep my personal workstation low power - it still does everything I throw at it very well. But that's for my personal use - semi-pro Camtasia videos productions, Photoshop and such. I am not a gamer at all, which is what tends to be the app requiring the fastest-baddest to be competitive online...Yea, that won't work for my pc
30% GPU usage on my mini computer for 4k streaming ... AMD Ryzen 7 5700U, 16 GB RAM, placed in an aluminium case (Akasa). Glued an old case fan on top which is silent from a short distance and reduces the average CPU temperature to max 60°C. Everything except for gaming, photo-/video-editing or ki-processing feels 100% as fast as my gaming pc.Integrated graphics in Intel i CPUs (even older ones) have no problem with 4k streaming. Video production @4k may be somewhat slow though.
Here's my corporate issued computer running a Youtube 4k test @60Hz (normally it'd read 12% average GPU utilization or so though). Incidentally also shows why I'd rather have 64GB on my own build.
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Well, that's not true, is it? SSDs can connect to CPU PCIe lanes, my desktop computer has 24 PCIe 5.0 that can be used for all kinds of devices, including SSDs. A server CPU just has more of them.
It is all complete nonsense. It can't perform audibly better than a $30 raspberry pi with competent external DAC.“The Taiko Audio Extreme is a State of the Art Music Server designed to deliver the most realistic sounding / live reproduction from stored music files and streaming music from Qobuz and Tidal.”
Is there a reason why something like this would use a dual-socket Xeon platform instead of regular desktop parts? It has flexibility in terms of networking but also adds complexity.EXTREME SERVER – Taiko Audio
I saw news about this a few days ago, but not sure if it just entered the market or if it's been out for a while. Could be that the article was posted to generate clicks because of the price.
Copilot told me that the last 10-core xeon scalable was 14nm, so those are older parts. 12 RAM modules of the smallest capacity, no modern video interfaces (I know it's a server with VGA, but still).
Well, that's not true, is it? SSDs can connect to CPU PCIe lanes, my desktop computer has 24 PCIe 5.0 that can be used for all kinds of devices, including SSDs. A server CPU just has more of them.
I hope they offer the best support possible considering the price they're asking.
It makes no sense.... a basic integrated AMD APU would do the job a heck of a lot cheaper, while probably being more powerful.... the older generation Ryzen 7's with 8 processors and the new releases will be boasting up to 16 processors....“The Taiko Audio Extreme is a State of the Art Music Server designed to deliver the most realistic sounding / live reproduction from stored music files and streaming music from Qobuz and Tidal.”
Is there a reason why something like this would use a dual-socket Xeon platform instead of regular desktop parts? It has flexibility in terms of networking but also adds complexity.EXTREME SERVER – Taiko Audio
I saw news about this a few days ago, but not sure if it just entered the market or if it's been out for a while. Could be that the article was posted to generate clicks because of the price.
Copilot told me that the last 10-core xeon scalable was 14nm, so those are older parts. 12 RAM modules of the smallest capacity, no modern video interfaces (I know it's a server with VGA, but still).
Well, that's not true, is it? SSDs can connect to CPU PCIe lanes, my desktop computer has 24 PCIe 5.0 that can be used for all kinds of devices, including SSDs. A server CPU just has more of them.
I hope they offer the best support possible considering the price they're asking.
1) Yes but with restrictions -4k@60hz , old version hdmi.
not really enough storage from what i can see
Internal disc space shouldn't bother you, you can always add an external usb ssd.
