SilentMaxx Readies Fanless Sandy Bridge-E Desktop

btarunr · Jul 19, 2012, 07:15 AM

German PC maker SilentMaxx achieved the unthinkable: a completely silent desktop PC driven by Intel's Watt-guzzling Core Sandy Bridge-E processors, including the six-core i7-3960X. The Fanless I-850 from SilentMaxx starts at 1,280€, and the base-model is powered by Core i7-3820. With the most critical component "silenced" thanks to its in-house TwinMax CPU cooler, the company loaded the rest of the rig with other silent components, such as silent PSUs, graphics cards, and of course, SSDs.

Although the Fanless I-850 ships with a passive-cooled Radeon HD 7770 graphics card, it can be configured to ship with a passive-cooled Radeon HD 7970, too. Other high-end options include multiple SSDs in RAID configurations, and up to 64 GB of quad-channel DDR3-1600 MHz memory.

Source: FanlessTech

TacoTown · Jul 19, 2012, 07:23 AM

Shame about the shitty graphics card...

INSTG8R · Jul 19, 2012, 07:33 AM

That is one huge wacky cooler...In house or an OEM by someone?

silapakorn · Jul 19, 2012, 08:00 AM

I'd like to see silent optical disk drive.

micropage7 · Jul 19, 2012, 08:39 AM

with that cooler, its no surprise that it could run passive

Dj-ElectriC · Jul 19, 2012, 09:15 AM

should have gotten some kind of a green-ish edition passive HD7850, that would be great.
With about 85-90W at peak, that would be more than doable.

median · Jul 19, 2012, 09:31 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by INSTG8R

That is one huge wacky cooler...In house or an OEM by someone?

http://www.silentmaxx.de/lautlose-le...twinblock.html

It's their own cooler

rpsgc · Jul 19, 2012, 09:58 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj-ElectriC

should have gotten some kind of a green-ish edition passive HD7850, that would be great.
With about 85-90W at peak, that would be more than doable.

You were saying...?

Dj-ElectriC · Jul 19, 2012, 10:06 AM

Anywhere that shows actual results of this without the fans on?
It's kinda confusing, sais fanless but has fans...

pantherx12 · Jul 19, 2012, 10:19 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj-ElectriC

Anywhere that shows actual results of this without the fans on?
It's kinda confusing, sais fanless but has fans...

Probably get sent the fans along with it just incase.

Looks like prolimatech heatsinks or deepcool v6000 though.

Performance should be decent.

rpsgc · Jul 19, 2012, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dj-ElectriC

Anywhere that shows actual results of this without the fans on?
It's kinda confusing, sais fanless but has fans...

Just because the picture of the cooler has fans doesn't mean it actually has fans. The description says "passive VGA cooler".

pantherx12 · Jul 19, 2012, 10:22 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rpsgc

Just because the picture of the cooler has fans doesn't mean it actually has fans. The description says "passive VGA cooler".

Why would they use pictures where they have fans fitted?

Having looked around their site their heatsinks do come with fans even though they are meant to be passive.

rpsgc · Jul 19, 2012, 10:28 AM

Maybe they should just put up a gorilla in a pink tutu instead.

pantherx12 · Jul 19, 2012, 12:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by rpsgc

Maybe they should just put up a gorilla in a pink tutu instead.

Aye it would be as helpful eh?

D4S4 · Jul 19, 2012, 02:39 PM

http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/sh...d.php?t=167975

this is what they need.

qubit · Jul 19, 2012, 06:33 PM

The way those twin towers are made and positioned reminds me of those other Twin Towers and it's not a pleasant memory.

Oberon · Jul 19, 2012, 06:38 PM

Just give me a couple of decent fans, some zip-ties, and a few hours with one of these machines; I wanna have some fun!

D007 · Jul 19, 2012, 06:41 PM

Faaakk man, is that a cooler for a pc or the cooling tower of a nuclear stack?
The weight of that alone, makes me nervous you'd fracture the board somehow.

Bjorn_Of_Iceland · Jul 23, 2012, 07:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by D007

Faaakk man, is that a cooler for a pc or the cooling tower of a nuclear stack?
The weight of that alone, makes me nervous you'd fracture the board somehow.

youd expect some reply like a "It comes with a backplate" or something like that. But Im here to put the kibosh on that one and say, "Hell yeah.. say goodbye to your mobo!"

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