DonkeyOatie said:
How about as a do-it-yourself all-in-one? Many small cases have VESA mounts so they can be attached to the back of a monitor to make something like a a laptop in an all-in-one format, although the TDP of i7 is high. Although the small boards hold only one HDD, that can be quite big, and there is often room for mSATA, or M.2 SSD in the system too.
Yeah but that's a nettop usage. Yeah but it's the same deal, with 1 or 2 HDDs, an i7 would be overkill for a nettop.
I've taken into account Folding@Home scenarios, but you can just as well stick an i7 into a desktop case and have much superior cooling (I wouldn't trust something so badly cooled to crunch numbers for more than a month for fear of it dying). I seriously can't see any scenario where an i7 would be adequate in such a small form factor.
An i7 would be reasonable as an AIO, they've got better cooling than things the size of a Brix or NUC (oh how I hate that name. Seriously, "Next" Unit of Computing? Sounds like a word a troll would make up to confuse us
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