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Comment by MattDemers | Hacker News Reader

>Why should you do this?

>Because I was done with the fan noise of my older and more powerful computer. After a while it felt as if a fighter jet was taking off next to me, constantly. I moved my old computer more away from me, but that wasn't enough.

:thinking: Feels like this could be fixed by some new fans, or at least an understanding of what GPU/CPU load is. Referencing "buying a new computer" just because of this is kind of overkill.

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True, could have replaced the fans. Or better, try to replace them and break something (never assembled a computer, no experience here). I didn't want to spend money on new fans and a technician. Another problem was, I needed something working the next day. But the biggest thing was, I wanted to experience fanless. RPi4 made that possible and held up pretty good, which surprised me.

There are fanless full-PC builds, though that would probably require you to build your own computer. Parent's overall point is definitely true though, the idea that you have to go all the way down to a Pi to get a quiet computer is laughable. With a few fans and a decent heatsink you can cool hundreds of watts silently.

It seems you miss the point of my post. I had the thing lying around. And it is indeed laughable, I laugh my ass off since this little silent computer is still going strong, without me giving up too much of my workflow.

Hey, if it works, it works (sorry if my comment came off as snarky). For reference in the future, Noctua fans are typically a highly-rated cheap/quiet fan product.

No prob. Thanks for pointing to Noctua fans.

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