A tiny form of chicicicionado with passion for passive, without system fans documentation Their online process (h/t Wykoporcza technology). So far, so ordinary, but “Monochrome 2” from Thejirala contains APU on the wish list of all, AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 “Strix Halo” processor. The project was marked as completed a few days ago.
Our fan-slimy hero began this black and white and passive compilation at the end of June, before he received computer equipment. Nevertheless, as the forum posts show, thejirals still managed to do many preparatory work before receiving your desktop computer. They thought about various supporting components, wiring and so on. Monochrome 2 uses a relatively team -friendly Framework device as its foundation, and you can operate the above link to check our extensive review of this month.
Chassis as heated
Of course, a significant continuation of the Monochrome 2 project is directed to operate the chassis as heat. We saw how this idea was used many times earlier. Such a design is suitable for compact compilation such as the SFF, in which panels of the boxes can be strictly connected to computing cores for dense compilation, bristled fins for the maximum convection occasion.
One of the first non-capacity components that were purchased to complete this version was the passive GAN AIO ATX ATX HDPLEX 250 W. Power supply. Despite some fears, this choice seemed approved when confirmed when it was confirmed that GMKTEC EVO-X2 Mini PC (with the same processor) packs 230 W.
It seems that Monochrome 2 was first launched with the Framework in Situ a few days ago. ThejiRal decided to make this Linux system (OpenSuse). Fortunately, after some fears and thermal corrections, the system was announced “compilation” on Friday. Now for some comparative tests – of course with the eye on Termile.
Some tests, but comparisons are complex to do
There is a bit of a crossover in these tests with our framework, but unfortunately not much. For example, our fan -cooled system has obtained 2966/17,574 in Geekbench tests with single / multiple. The results for passive monochrome 2 were registered as 3116/20 785. The passive system is noticeably better, but there are operating systems and perhaps the differences in the Geekbench 6.x version to spoil the direct comparison.
We both conducted the performance tests of Cyberpunk 2077. Our Framework machine achieved 22 frames per second in an ultra set 1080p radius. Meanwhile, it is said that the passive system reached an average of 31 frames per second on something that looks the same. However, we have ink that thejiral has used a certain level of FSR.
Although the comparative comparisons we see do not mean that the relative performance of the passive machine is clear, maybe we can say that a passive thermal solution does a decent work. Supporting this concept, the monochrome manufacturer 2 provides thermal data and images from the machine with the APU set in 100W / balanced mode. Later, they would update the system stuffed to 120 in TDP, which Thejiraal decided that “too nervous” and the system would just stabilize in 98.8 ° C after 2 hours of continuous load.
We expect more details and updating the source thread in the coming days and weeks, so it’s probably worth behaving if you are interested in the idea of AMD Ryzen Ai Max+ 395 in the SFF case.
Finally, we notice that the charming compactness of the skeletal desktop has been devoted to the gods of passive cooling. While the first one has only 4.5 liters in volume, the latter increased to 7.5 liters. It also weighs much more with “4.5 kg of heat” (it’s almost 10 pounds).
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