OnLogic Karbon 700: Passively-Cooled, Up To 8 Core / 16 Thread Industrial & Rugged PC

[starshipeleven]

What a expensive looking way to get your industrial processes ... backdoored a bit, ehehe.

Industrial stuff's "security" is debatable at best. If someone has physical network access you are screwed anyway.

[SystemCrasher]

What a expensive looking way to get your industrial processes ... backdoored a bit, ehehe.

[George99]

but nothing prevents the user from using it as a passively, well-built desktop PC either.

Well, but:

the price can quickly approach the $2,000 USD threshold

Don't get me wrong: for industrial use this rugged machine maybe worth every buck...

[yariv]

It isn't clear if the Karbon 700 was tested with a discrete GPU or not.
If no such GPU was installed then the comparison is not very meaningful.

[jrch2k8]

mmm this would have been interesting with a Ryzen/Pro 3700 but with a Xeon is kinda, Meh!!

[phoronix]

Phoronix: OnLogic Karbon 700: Passively-Cooled, Up To 8 Core / 16 Thread Industrial & Rugged PC

OnLogic (formerly known as Logic Supply until a recent rebranding) announced the Karbon 700 back in August as a durable Linux-friendly computer largely intended for industrial applications but nothing prevents the user from using it as a passively, well-built desktop PC either. OnLogic recently sent over the Karbon 700 and it's been working out very well even with passively cooling an Intel Xeon eight-core / sixteen-thread processor, 16GB of RAM, 512GB NVMe storage, and more.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=28487