One of the best aspects of their builds is that they ignore unnecessarily complex techniques like water cooling or insulation, opting for noise reduction at the source instead. Since there is no space for mechanical HDDs and I want to keep virtualizing machines on it I need to set up a different system to substitute my old NAS. I don't need graphics card or a full fledged rack unit (right now, maybe in the future I'm going bigger) which would require bigger spaces and thus a Micro-ATX would be maybe a better solution. Said chance is higher than that of total disk failure, which is already significant with current-day disk sizes. Once the machine was fully patched and the BIOS firmware updated, and I had verified that the patches fully mitigated the threats, I ran Cinebench again.

Multiple product codes can be mapped to one mother product code if the specifications are identical. It did its job and it has been upgraded through the years until a bunch of months ago support was dropped (I understand you cannot support devices for so many years, we are not talking about some low end Samsung phone which doesn't get even a major version upgrade).

I don't know if the hardware already configured by iXsystems is oversized for my NAS-only needs since it could cover virtualization and other services as well to target as many entry level consumers as possible. I'd love to do it proper in one go and that's a challenge with a budget this small, but this is what I've got to work with. There is not even a significant change in power consumption if you connect a single display to the mainboard’s Intel graphics instead.

My initial (possibly naive) thought was getting a decent 2nd hand motherboard and processor for say 200 euro, using the Crucial CT4K4G4DFS8213 (16 GB DDR4 non ECC, yes, not ideal) and cooler I've still got. The most important value, however, is idle power consumption, because no matter how furiously you work, your machine will be idling a large part of the time. Now, really, I've heard all the stuff about how I'm wrong or how I'm an idiot or how I don't know what I'm talking about, and I can serenely listen to that all day long.

I’ve looked into MSI’s eco line which looks promising, but the latest model is already several years old and not powerful enough for what I need.