[OT] The coolest (literally) desktop machine I've ever had

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On Friday, 12 August 2016 at 19:13:12 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> I was using a large Lenovo Y70-70 laptop as a pseudo-desktop 
> machine and additional monitor. It's quite powerful, but its 
> fans would run at all times. Getting really tired of that, I 
> googled for the better part of an afternoon for "fanless 
> desktop" and it turns out it's much harder to find one than I'd 
> initially thought. (Slow fanless machines are easy to find, but 
> I was looking for one as powerful as any desktop.)
>
> At about the time I was ready to give up I found an obscure 
> site of an Israeli company that claimed to make a real i7 
> fanless machine. It was releases very recently, too, so I'm 
> thinking it might be of interest to some others.
>
> So I got it from Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01CP4S15E. 
> I fitted it with 8 GB RAM and 512 GB SSD. It's more expensive 
> than a traditional desktop of the same configuration, but as 
> soon as you turn it on, you know where that extra money went. 
> (Speaking of money, ironically, the extra expenditure has had 
> an unexpected return: I occasionally daytrade, and when I do I 
> need CNBC on. That made the laptop's fans make even more noise 
> than usual, so I was avoiding it. Nowadays I can keep CNBC on 
> no problem, which allowed me to handily cover the extra 
> expense.)
>
> I've put Linux Mint on it (which is what they recommend) and it 
> works swimmingly. The handling of multiple desktops is just 
> awesome. The one thing I don't like about the machine is it 
> always powers the discrete graphics card, which I don't use. 
> Their engineers (who've been very active to respond to my 
> emailed questions) said a future BIOS upgrade will allow 
> powering off the card.
>
> Thought this might help others looking for a fanless dekstop.
>
>
> Andrei

You give talks about CPU technologies, optimization techniques 
etc. how did you not know that liquid cooling exist :) Or that is 
not what you wanted?