Fanless mini PC for Frigate

[unique forge]

Hi. What is your opinion on fanless mini PC's such as Minix, compared to mini PC such as Beelink?

[hallow stratus]

they are largely the same. I do like the beelink systems and tend to recommend them because I have a number of them and they have been great and had no issues but realistically the above is probably fine.

although I will note that some mini pc's (not necessarily this one) seem to have less well supported ethernet controllers. usb ethernet adaptor tends to be the solution in some cases.

[unique forge]

Thanks. All mini PC's that I've owned had a fan. No sure if these fanless wouldn't get too hot with only a heatsink, and how would it affect the CPU.

[hallow stratus]

its unlikely to be a problem. it looks like on that the case is a big heatsink and the cpu power is pretty low so once stuff reaches a certain temp it will be loosing heat quicker than the cpu can heat so will reach a sort of critical point limit.