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what a load of snake-oil bullshit lol

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

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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.

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

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

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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

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

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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

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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

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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.

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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, —

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Fanless PC cases cost about $400.

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

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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.

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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.

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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

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It only runs on triple-filtered HiFi high octane electricity

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