Completely fanless/noiseless Sandy Bridge or similar?
I am wondering if 32nm process and some other advancements have made a silent pc of reasonable power to run X1 a reality. Here are some quick thoughts - does anyone know if this will fly and be reasonably fast to run Sonar X1 and be solid for a few years? What I'm hoping for is similar performance to my Q6600 system in terms of cpu horsepower, but with 8gigs of ram and windows 7 64bit. I'm planning on leveraging the integrated HD3k graphics of sandy bridge and the lower TDP of an S chip(if necessary, or else I'd go with an underclocked K chip, even, if i could go fanless). I'd like to stay quad-core or better if at all possible.
Sandy Bridge i7-2600S or similar (45w TDP)
Seasonic or other fanless PSU
1 or 2 x SSD (ocz vertex 3 240gb, maybe one more)
TI firewire port on mobo or riser card
Fanless case
Can I keep the total TDP of such a system low enough(using integrated graphics, assuming those are on the S series processors) to drive either a 2560x1600 monitor or a pair of 1920x1200 or simliar? I'm expecting that the mobo+cpu+ram+sdd will have a total power draw of maybe 120watts or less, so it seems like I should be able to put all of this into some sort of fanless system. Does this make sense? If not, I will be happy to examine other options - I do have a storage room that I can put a relatively quiet pc into and run usb/hdmi or similar cabling to the mix area(~20feet max).
post edited by groove - 2011/11/29 20:58:56