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[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 79 points 5 months ago (1 children)

what a load of snake-oil bullshit lol

[–] conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.works 15 points 5 months ago

Jesus. I thought it was for recording, at least.

[–] alleycat@lemmy.world 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Taiko says that “fewer and lower speed DIMMs are better for sound quality,” which is why it didn’t use the best RAM for gaming.

And here I am, listening to the inferior sound of my gaming-RAM.

[–] herrgef@feddit.org 2 points 5 months ago

Ah, thats why i didnt make it big yet. its my sound inferior DDR5 RAM! Thanks!

[–] cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de 25 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Or you could just save your money and put a normal PC in another room where you can't hear the fans.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I feel like I could build a nearly silent PC for 1/10th the price and serve a lot more than just audio from it, and still be comfortable with keeping it in the room with me

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Literally just build a normal PC but use one of these big hear sinks instead of a fan: https://graphicscardhub.com/passive-cpu-cooler/

[–] Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

Noctua literally has a consumer grade fanless heatsink that is allegedly just as good as advertised for like 100 bucks. Find a quiet PSU and you're basically done. Unless it needs a GPU which could be more problematic

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

This is exactly what I was going to say

You can get fiber optic extenders for USB, video, networking. They can be spendy, like $1,000, but it's a one-time purchase. A lot cheaper than this computer

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or just... longer cables. Ethernet is already designed for long cable runs, and USB and video cables are easy to find in lengths over 10m (though good ones are a bit pricey). You could even make do with standard cables if you set up against an interior wall and pass cables through the wall to the PC in the adjacent room.

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Absolutely true, there are some real world scenarios where fiber has the advantage

  • Low/No electromagnetic interference
    • Radio labs
    • MRI techs
    • (audiophiles? maybe)
  • Low latency, long distance
    • The source computer can me many meters/km away
  • All in one device
    • One fiber pair can run the full KVM stack for a remote computer

But yeah, for most scenarios, conventional cables are fine, ---

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 5 months ago

Fanless PC cases cost about $400.

[–] Mihies@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Or just go with a fanless one, perhaps an ARM based or even a PC. 🤷‍♂️

[–] Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

For a such a price I would expect a larger Optane SSD (I am assuming you would use it for your boot/application drive).

2TB base storage is also ridiculous for such a price, although you can fit a lot of music in 2TB even if you store everything in FLAC.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

The optane is weird on multiple fronts, but what struck me was the ram. ONLY 48GB when you have dual CPUs, seems weird for something of this price.

[–] recklessengagement@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

That, and how they're somehow able to take you from 2TB of additional storage to 64TB for a mere 2 grand... Something isn't adding up

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It only runs on triple-filtered HiFi high octane electricity

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I am both disgusted and aroused

[–] Heikki@lemm.ee 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can only get so hard/wet

[–] Burninator05@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

The fact that I'm both at the same time is why I'm disgusted.

[–] renegadespork@lemmy.jelliefrontier.net 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

These specs look like a leftover casserole of hardware.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Optane

Xeon

Yep, leftovers. I wonder if those mobos are server ones as well.

Might be a good sell with upcycling. But power consumption on these is probably nuts.

[–] Pieisawesome@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Dual xeons on a non-server board?

I doubt it…

[–] Geometrinen_Gepardi@sopuli.xyz 8 points 5 months ago

You can tell it's high-end by the huge bank of filter capacitors.

[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Windows running RoonOS(Linux) in a docker? Thats why two Xeons?