what a load of snake-oil bullshit lol
Jesus. I thought it was for recording, at least.
Or you could just save your money and put a normal PC in another room where you can’t hear the fans.
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
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.
Absolutely true, there are some real world scenarios where fiber has the advantage
- Low/No electromagnetic interference
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- Radio labs
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- MRI techs
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- (audiophiles? maybe)
- Low latency, long distance
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- The source computer can me many meters/km away
- All in one device
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- One fiber pair can run the full KVM stack for a remote computer
But yeah, for most scenarios, conventional cables are fine, —
Fanless PC cases cost about $400.
Or just go with a fanless one, perhaps an ARM based or even a PC. 🤷♂️
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.
It only runs on triple-filtered HiFi high octane electricity
You can tell it’s high-end by the huge bank of filter capacitors.
I am both disgusted and aroused
You can only get so hard/wet
These specs look like a leftover casserole of hardware.
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.
Windows running RoonOS(Linux) in a docker? Thats why two Xeons?
