Powerful silent Roon core PCs are coming soon!

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The new revolutionary passive cooling chips are silent and seem to cool 8 core chips with ease.

I think this is big news for Roon users.

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I thought Roon only used a single core?

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Not if you use DSP or upsampling.

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Ah! OK.

So this is a PC with a new kind of fan, useful for packing PCs into tight spaces.

the company is using two of Frore Systems’ standard AirJet “mini” cooling chips, which have been placed directly over the processor and other supporting silicon components on a copper heat spreader. The enhanced cooling allowed the vendor to pack an eight-core Intel Core i3-N300(Opens in a new window) CPU into the handheld-size mini PC.

Interesting, I guess, for space-confined setups.

AirJet module can lie atop a chip or chips and produce, via internal vibrations, a powerful suction force capable of pulling air through the AirJet’s body and exhausting it from a laptop or other hardware.

There’s a data sheet available.

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Not only tiny but also has no moving parts as far as I understand (thus silent).

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Sort of. Very very tiny moving parts. It says the membranes vibrate at ultrasonic frequencies.

From the Forbes article:

The AirJet Mini produces 21 dBA of noise, and the AirJet Pro produces 24 dBA of noise with slightly higher dBA when multiple AirJet chips are used. For reference, the average fan runs at about 42 dBA, and the average person cannot hear anything under 30 dBA.

Pretty cool device. :smile:

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