Posts Tagged ‘silent’
Silent PC GPU upgrade
TL;DR Nvidia have ended Linux support for my ‘Pascal’ GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I’ve been able to fit an RTX 5050 card in its place, though the process was problematic due to driver issues. And I’m still concerned that it can only be limited to 110W when my passive cooling is rated up to 75W. […]
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Tags: 1050 Ti, 5050, console, cooling, drivers, GPU, grub, GTX, Kubuntu, Linux, NVidia, Palit, passive, power, RTX, silent, StormX
March 2025
Pupdate March was reasonably dry (and even sunny sometimes), so the boys were able to get out for some nice long walks :) Milo also finished his third chemo protocol. I’m overdue a diary post about that, but the short version is that he’s doing well :) Skiing The month started with me skiing in […]
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Tags: dachshund, iphone, Monki Gras, OpenWRT, PC, pupdate, Ross Anderson, Rossfest, sbom, sbomify, sick, silent, skiing, solar, Vespa
Silent PC upgrade
TL;DR After 6.5y+ of service my PC needed a refresh – so it has a new motherboard, CPU, RAM and SSD, and I’ve taken the opportunity to switch to Linux. It’s still completely silent, but noticeably faster :) Background I built a Silent PC based on a Streacom DB4 case back in the summer of […]
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Tags: benchmark, CPU, DB4, Intel, Kubuntu, Linux, motherboard, PC, QuietPC, RAM, silent, ssd, Streacom, Ubuntu
Silent PC
TL;DR I’ve been very happy with the silence of my passively cooled NUC for the past 4 years, but it was starting to perform poorly. So when I came across a good looking recipe for a silent PC with higher performance I put one together for myself. Background I’ve been running my NUC in an […]
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Tags: AMD, benchmark, DB4, NUC, PC, Ryzen, silent, Streacom, temperature, thermal
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