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  • noobmaster69 - Thursday, June 1, 2023 - link

    Looks like a great product, but I can’t see them selling many of them at that price point.
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, June 2, 2023 - link

    Audio engineers and people like Steve Jobs who appreciate silence.
  • deporter - Thursday, June 1, 2023 - link

    Pricey, but interesting.

    Now we just need to get rid of the damn coil whine...
  • Samus - Friday, June 2, 2023 - link

    Stay away from Asus graphics cards and you're ahead of the field. Noisiest cards I've come across by a notable margin.
  • PeachNCream - Friday, June 2, 2023 - link

    Alternatively, one could just buy a more rational computer and save a bucket of money on initial costs, electricity, and residential cooling over the years while still enjoying entertainment if they pick reasonable things to ask their computer to do for them.
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, June 2, 2023 - link

    People with tinnitus will find this rational.
  • abufrejoval - Tuesday, June 6, 2023 - link

    I'm not so sure.

    It could go both ways: complete silence tends to incite the in-ear pre-amplifiers to increase their sensitivity resulting in more tinnitus generated noise, while properly matched white noise might get them to decrease their amplification.

    It's hard to imagine coil whine will qualify as the proper white noise for many, but good fans might come closer to the "breeze" our ears evolved to ignore.

    I used to think mine was coil whine until one day I decided to cut all power in order to locate the "offender"... that's when I noticed the ca. 15Khz beep actually came from inside my head.
  • Oxford Guy - Wednesday, June 7, 2023 - link

    Silence does not aggravate nor cause tinnitus.
  • kgardas - Friday, June 2, 2023 - link

    Does anybody here remember Zalman TNN-500(AF)? Well, no need to mount boards diagonally and make ports inaccessible on both GPU and mainboard... IMHO Streacom should reconsider this design decision... Price is on level of Zalman so all right...
  • Oxford Guy - Friday, June 2, 2023 - link

    Yes, I remember it. I also remember the Calyos NSG S0 vaporware Kickstarter case and followed all of the furious comments over the many years that that product pretended to be in process. Apparently, the saga continues!

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