Apart from surfing the internet, I use my computer mainly for photo editing, but not for gaming. My old computer was a desktop with a seocnd tier Intel CPU and three times as much RAM as typically used, and upgrading it with a SATA-SSD and a graphics card for a 4k monitor kept it useful for 14 years. For a replacement, I now looked for a machine that could be used just as long, but is less noisy and consumes less power, so it does not heat as much in the summertime.After some researching, I ordered an A50 Fanless i17 D5 from Quiet PC with an Intel i7 14700T CPU, 64 GB RAM, a fast SAMSUNG 990 PRO SSD and a Thunderbolt 4 expansion card. Delivery was as fast as promised and the PC arrived well packaged with all unused spare parts from its components. That's nice because the extra power cables could be useful for installing upgrade components. Delivery by UPS was kind of pathetic, because they changed the delivery date three times and did not show up at two of the dates. When they finally came, they collected VAT in cash, but had no payment receipt ready. I had to ask the delivery driver to confirm reciept of the payment in handwriting on the invoice. However, this is not the vendor's fault, so Quiet PC gets the full rating.When I tried to transfer data from an external HD drive, I noticed that the two USB-A ports at the front did not work. A look into the case showed that the cable was connected to the ports and neatly tied away, with the connector to the motherboard dangling loose. I suspect it came loose when I pulled out the foam package that had been placed between the PSU and the CPU cooler to protect the cooler during transport. Pluging the loose connector into the motherboard socket solved the problem. I really appreciate Quiet PC's open case policy, which allowed me to open the case and fix this problem myself without jeopardizing the warranty.Out of curiosity I ran the Passmark benchmark and was positively surprised to get a CPU passmark score of about 46400. That's almost 50% higher than the average score I found for this processor in Passmark's database and an impressive result for a CPU with a maximum power rating of 106 W. The Passmark scores for memory and disk performance were also very good.The PC's power consumption, measured at the mains plug, is about 30 W when idling windows, reached 60-80 W when running the Passmark tests for graphics, memory and disk, and peaked at about 160 W in the compute intensive CPU test.The great overall performance of the systems shows up in typical tasks such as a virus scan. A complete virus scan of the entire system with Norton 360, which used to take hours on my old computer, is now completed in less than 3 minutes for scanning almost 900.000 filed with 770 GB of data. Power consumption during the scan was less than 60 W for most of the time with a short peak at about 120 W.And, as promised, the computer is really silent. The only audible sound is a faint click at the end of the shutdown.To sum it up: This is the computer for powerful but sustainable computing that I was looking for (low power consumption, upgradable for many years of use).
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