Noctua NH-P1 Cube AMD – AM5 7000 Series, Fanless PC – Up to 10 Displays

1 review for Noctua NH-P1 Cube AMD – AM5 7000 Series, Fanless PC – Up to 10 Displays

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   Rated 5 out of 5

   Simon – 12 April 2023

   Since I first used a fanless PC 10+ years ago, I have appreciated the lovely silence they allow that helps me feel peaceful, calm and relaxed which helps clear thinking and creativity.

   For my next machine I wanted a lightning fast PC for mostly non-gaming use which had to be 100% fanless and 100% noise free.

   After chatting about my needs with the helpful and friendly people at Inside-Tech, they built me a 100% knockout custom PC which ticked all my boxes.

   The PC has an AMD Ryzen 9 7900 CPU with integrated Radeon graphics, which is super efficient (65W TDP, ~88W PPT), 32GB RAM (nice RGB lighting that lights up the case inside, visible through the tiny holes within the top and side panels), 1TB Seagate FireCuda NVMe M.2 SSD which is stunningly fast, and a massive but highly capable passive cooling solution in the form of the Noctua NH-P1 heatsink…and all this installed into an elegant case that has been designed to help with passive cooling via heat convection and thermal transfer.

   The Ryzen 9 7900 CPU is superb because it has 12 cores (24 threads) and has about 80% of the processing power of the Ryzen 9 7950X CPU which is a 170W processor (~ 235W PPT), yet it sips power. Less electricity, cheaper to run, less heat, easier passive cooling – important for a fanless PC.

   Running Debian 12 Bookworm Linux perfectly (latest version: sid/unstable), after boot, this PC is idling at between 0% and 1% CPU usage, processor T-junction temperatures of around 40C (max 95C), processor average core frequency of around 3GHz, and power draw measured at the plug socket is showing an average of 30W at idle with a few applications open, which I consider remarkable. I installed the latest BIOS and haven’t checked BIOS etc settings, so may not be currently running at full CPU base clock frequency which I think is around 3.7GHz (max boost clock 5.4GHz) for this processor. However, currently I have no desire to alter anything as everything is running well.

   When you put load on the processor, the CPU temp rises rapidly and then drops quickly once the load reduces.

   Everthing loads almost instantly with the NVMe SSD. File transfers etc are rapid.

   I highly recommend Inside-Tech and would definitely use them again for my next build.

   If you want the same spec system I have, ask them for a Simon 7900 system 🙂

   See here for the specs on this processor – AMD Ryzen 9 7900
   https://www.amd.com/en/product/12746

   Apologies for any errors. Enjoy!