I have a Skull Canyon, maxed out on SSD's and RAM (64GB), running Linux Mint.
I use this mainly as a media server and for playing uncompressed FLACs and BluRay 2k films it works great, I also plan to do some light duty gaming in 1080.
However for 4k UHD playback, the fan noise is noticeable although playback is fine.

Options for upgrade is an eGPU, which afaik, the prices are not low, and may not solve the fan issue. If you know of a fanless eGPU let me know, but the whole concept of a fanless eGPU sounds like a solution that the market doesn't support.

Another option, is I saw this design which basically has the NUC form factor in a fanless design, but don't know if it would support 4k UHD or gaming. Does anyone have any experience with one of these fanless units with graphics demands?
https://store.mele.cn/products/mele-cyber-x1-fanless-mini-pc-n150?variant=46711823827122

My short term solution will be renewing the thermal paste and see if the heat transfer improves....

Hi all. I have a 7i5BNB NUC. Its fan noise is really annoying, and I’m not sure if it’s my wrong perception or not, but I believe that if I toggle the settings in BIOS to make it more quiet, the PC performance is significantly lower, including WiFi speeds.
How to fix this?
I was thinking about tinkering a bit and look into adding a peltier module to cool it down, will this work, or does anyone have a different solution? Thanks.