Sexy, but for home use I don't need a space heater, on the contrary. What's the fastest (multiple core) you can get these days inside 65 W and who wins there, AMD or Intel?
Pretty sure it is AMD with Ryzen 7 1700 or Ryzen 7 2700 both rated at 65W TDP
I have a Ryzen 1700 at home, and I am very happy with it. The fan that came with it runs very quietly even under heavy load. On workloads that utilize all cores, frequency will drop to 2-2.5 GHz after a while, but for those, the number of cores/threads tends to have a bigger impact on throughput than clock frequency / performance per core.
Aww thanks - for some reason I had forgotten there are Ryzen 7s at 65 W and was only looking at the 5s...
I was very happy to discover the 1700 back then, because I wanted an 8-core machine really badly (not that I really need one, but hey, I only upgrade my desktop every ~5 years), but I did not want an electric radiator. ;-)
It's only a space heater when it's being used. These CPUs consume very little power when idle. So if you have a task that can leverage 32 cores.. that task should in theory complete that much faster than on your 65W CPU. So the difference in total heat generated shouldn't be too bad.
It's very likely that my definition of a silent PC differs greatly from yours :)