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Steve_Rhoden wrote on 11/25/2024, 11:00 PM

Seems to be a good buy to me.

RogerS wrote on 11/25/2024, 11:54 PM

Price is low! Does it have a GPU? Is it adequately cooled?

Reyfox wrote on 11/26/2024, 5:37 AM

That was my thought too, cooling.

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mark-y wrote on 11/26/2024, 7:40 AM

There have been 0 complaints of overheating on Amazon. My case remains cool during full rendering, because the CPU runs at only 3%. GPU renders like a little rabbit. Came preinstalled with Win11 and MS Office. Price you see is actually more than I paid on a coupon that has since expired.

mark-y wrote on 11/26/2024, 7:43 AM

 

It is supposed to support 3 HDR10 monitors at once!

Howard-Vigorita wrote on 11/26/2024, 12:02 PM

Looks like a Nuc variant with a mobile 12th gen cpu and IrisXe igpu. Case looks too small to add a compact Nvidia 4070 which some of the Nucs allow in larger cases... but not in that price range. Over on the Simply Nuc site you could get something similar for a little more that's more recent.

john_dennis wrote on 11/26/2024, 1:19 PM

As a background task, I was looking for a replacement for my Q9450 machine that I once used for editing but now use for email. (That means that my wife gets to touch it). I considered compact computers as well as just duplicating my current edit machine so I could use it as a render machine. I was even more motivated when the Q9450 machine started getting "morning sickness" and running diagnostics with no failure. I finally got a beep code that tended to point to power. I got the beep one and only one time, but I threw a power supply at it anyway. Here is a sample of the errors that I got over a period of time with the beeps in the background.

  1. The power supplies that I buy have 10-year warranties.
  2. Unfortunately, this one was more than 10 years old.
  3. The old Q9450 system has a fire wire port, a floppy disk, a removable rack for IDE hard drives and an HD-DVD-ROM/Blu-ray writer.

I used to call bugs fixed when I walked out the door. This one has run 11 days without an error, so I now pronounce it fixed.

mark-y wrote on 11/27/2024, 8:19 AM

Thank you for your comments. I have no reason at this point to consider a different option.

@Howard-Vigorita It ain't broke . . . .

RogerS wrote on 11/28/2024, 6:14 AM

I don't think Howard was suggesting to get rid of a new computer, it just wasn't clear from the initial post if this is something you're recommending or just using yourself.

I think low power hardware in better cooled form factors than laptops make a lot of sense and save money on energy as well.