16 May
2018
16 May
'18
11:58 a.m.
On 05/15/2018 09:08 PM, Will Godfrey wrote:
On Tue, 15 May 2018 20:18:43 -1000
david <gnome(a)hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
Sounds reasonable to me for what you go as a custom build.
Sounds good to me! Cost? Plus an option for a
Ryzen 7 chip? Not that I
could afford such a thing with shipping from the UK. Although I am very
impressed with how well they packed it.
Total cost (including delivery) was 850 ukp, so not cheap. I had been holding
on to savings for some time specfically for this purchase though, as the
previous machine was 8 years old and showing signs of stress. It was also quite
noisy. The new one is silent, so on a quiet evening I can now very faintly hear
a whine from the backlight of one of my hardware synths :o
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.
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. :)
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