We often talk to you about mini PCs, the trendy format because they are computers that barely take up space and offer plenty of power for practically everything you need, including playing games in many cases. However, it is quite rare to find fanless mini PCwithout fans and therefore completely silent, which is why a modder decided to make his own, and also with a rack the SSD connected by USB4. We tell you.
If you look at the main photo, the most striking thing about this mini PC is its huge passive heatsink; More precisely, it is a Wakefield Vette PADLED-13080 that the modder purchased from DigiKey, a store that unfortunately does not serve Europe. However, we’re writing this article more out of curiosity than the product itself, so let’s take a look.
Fanless Mini PC with SSD Rack is Amazing
The heart of this modding project is an ASRock Industrial Box 7640U mini PC, a mini PC that was already fanless from the factory but whose passive heat sink was quite small and mediocre, clearly insufficient in terms of performance, which caused that as soon as you gave the gear a little hard, the Thermal Throttling technology kicked in and the performance dropped.
Therefore, the first thing the user did was modify the mini PC case to be able to install the huge passive heatsink that you can see in the images, and to do that he basically had to replace the entire ASRock mini external case. Custom designed PC made using a 3D printer.
As for the hardware of the mini PC, it uses a low-power AMD Ryzen 5 7640U processor, a processor intended for laptops whose performance is not really exceptional and which equips an integrated Radeon 760M graphics card with only 8 RDNA3 CUs. The processor of this mini PC has a TDP of 28 vatios, but the modder activated an overclock option in the BIOS which allows the processor to operate at 45 vatios, offering a better performance, and as well as the disipador the permitte de sobra, pues Why not?
But of course, what the user wanted to use this mini PC for didn’t need a lot of power… and taking advantage of the fact that the mini PC has connectivity USB4 factory, he decided to return to his 3D printer to create a case allowing two SSDs to be connected and thus have a sort of storage server. In this way, not only has it managed to significantly increase the capacity of the mini PC, but it has done so with a fairly high speed that has nothing or almost nothing to envy of the M.2 SSDs installed at the factory in mini PCs contemporaries.
As we said at the beginning, we are telling you this more out of curiosity than anything else, because this project is undoubtedly curious. The truth is that with a little imagination, ingenuity and a 3D printer you can create some very interesting projects, right?
