This is one of those things I have wondered about. It is fairly trivial to build a PC that has extremely low fan noise, as in you will only hear the fans with your ears right up against the back or front intake/exhaust. We've come a long way from the early 2000s with PC fans, no one really tolerates fans that can be heard any more. Heck I could make my computer look like a gay disco and even those types of fans are pretty quiet. I have to imagine the vast majority of people have listening rooms with much higher ambient noise. I am pretty lucky living in a low population area that I pretty much do have very close to dead black backgrounds. In the spring/summer the crickets can be annoying but music even at passive listening volumes will drown them out.
So what is the advantage of a NUC? This is a sincere question that I am curious about. I suppose I like the romantic notion of having a tiny ~ 15 watt PC being the only PC in my stereo hifi room with no ugly big tower, but even that notion is fairly easy to dismiss and probably easy enough to hide the tower.
So what is the advantage of a NUC? This is a sincere question that I am curious about. I suppose I like the romantic notion of having a tiny ~ 15 watt PC being the only PC in my stereo hifi room with no ugly big tower, but even that notion is fairly easy to dismiss and probably easy enough to hide the tower.
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