Originally Posted By: Simon - PG Music
Certainly, but you can cram a lot of performance into an ITX machine these days.

Aye ... BTW I forgot to mention that both of those ITX machines of mine are around a decade old now.

Series 11 i5s seem to be a fairly common ITX engine now. There are even some 12th gens. ITX boards tend to use the laptop CPUs for efficiency, which certainly helps wrt fan noise. There are some ITX cases around that have aluminium fins and heat-pipes to allow fanless operation for around the 65W TDP CPUs. That includes a number of 12th gen parts and AMD parts, though most(?) 12th gens appear to need throttling back to stay within the 65W.

ITX can give pretty impressive performance for modest cost, size and energy.


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