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if it fails memtest86, maybe try again with a big fan directed onto the top of the Topton. Then try regular deployed use with the big fan blowing on it. Do you see the same results, or different?
I have been interested in mini-pc devices like this, such as Protectli Vault models, but the lack of active cooling always makes me hesitate. I wonder, can it really be stable and provide high uptimes? I have no experience with these tiny PC models myself, so I hesitate and search for testimonials. More than once I was just about to click BUY!!! on similar items while browsing Amazon, and just in the corner of my eye I then see "frequently returned item." Yes, well perhaps I can guess why that might be, I think, and it all comes to a screeching halt.
On at least some models, Protectli includes tightly fitted slabs of aluminum heat transfer blocks between critical components and the topside heat sink. Are blocks like these present inside the Topton models? I have no idea. If they aren't present they could be fabricated by a sufficiently OCD afflicted owner. (TBH I would set about this at once without asking myself why really, or consulting with a licensed therapist) But if I were advising someone else, I would say, can lowering the operating temperature by increasing airflow across the heat sink improve system stability at all? If it does then maybe we're onto the cause of the instability, but if it doesn't significantly change things then it's going to be down to something else.
I have been interested in mini-pc devices like this, such as Protectli Vault models, but the lack of active cooling always makes me hesitate. I wonder, can it really be stable and provide high uptimes? I have no experience with these tiny PC models myself, so I hesitate and search for testimonials. More than once I was just about to click BUY!!! on similar items while browsing Amazon, and just in the corner of my eye I then see "frequently returned item." Yes, well perhaps I can guess why that might be, I think, and it all comes to a screeching halt.
On at least some models, Protectli includes tightly fitted slabs of aluminum heat transfer blocks between critical components and the topside heat sink. Are blocks like these present inside the Topton models? I have no idea. If they aren't present they could be fabricated by a sufficiently OCD afflicted owner. (TBH I would set about this at once without asking myself why really, or consulting with a licensed therapist) But if I were advising someone else, I would say, can lowering the operating temperature by increasing airflow across the heat sink improve system stability at all? If it does then maybe we're onto the cause of the instability, but if it doesn't significantly change things then it's going to be down to something else.
