Thursday, July 19th 2012
SilentMaxx Readies Fanless Sandy Bridge-E Desktop
German PC maker SilentMaxx achieved the unthinkable: a completely silent desktop PC driven by Intel's Watt-guzzling Core Sandy Bridge-E processors, including the six-core i7-3960X. The Fanless I-850 from SilentMaxx starts at 1,280€, and the base-model is powered by Core i7-3820. With the most critical component "silenced" thanks to its in-house TwinMax CPU cooler, the company loaded the rest of the rig with other silent components, such as silent PSUs, graphics cards, and of course, SSDs.
Although the Fanless I-850 ships with a passive-cooled Radeon HD 7770 graphics card, it can be configured to ship with a passive-cooled Radeon HD 7970, too. Other high-end options include multiple SSDs in RAID configurations, and up to 64 GB of quad-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory.
Source:
FanlessTech
Although the Fanless I-850 ships with a passive-cooled Radeon HD 7770 graphics card, it can be configured to ship with a passive-cooled Radeon HD 7970, too. Other high-end options include multiple SSDs in RAID configurations, and up to 64 GB of quad-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory.
18 Comments on SilentMaxx Readies Fanless Sandy Bridge-E Desktop
with that cooler, its no surprise that it could run passive
With about 85-90W at peak, that would be more than doable.
It's their own cooler
It's kinda confusing, sais fanless but has fans...
Looks like prolimatech heatsinks or deepcool v6000 though.
Performance should be decent.
Having looked around their site their heatsinks do come with fans even though they are meant to be passive.
this is what they need.
The way those twin towers are made and positioned reminds me of those other Twin Towers and it's not a pleasant memory.
The weight of that alone, makes me nervous you'd fracture the board somehow.