Quiet PC A30 Fanless i17

Our best-selling 100% fanless PC is now configurable with Intel’s 12gen processors which is cooled by either the Nofan IcePipe cooler, or Noctua’s impressive NH-P1! This excellent PC doesn’t compromise on performance and comes with 2 year warranty.

A30 Fanless i17, Cooler Master Q300L chassis, banana for scale

At last - Affordable PC Silence!

We are proud to offer the A30 Fanless i17 which is the next iteration of our most popular fanless system! The CPU is silently cooled by a fanless CPU cooler for no noise, no dust, no moving parts and no maintenance. The machine can be configured to your exact specification and offers, as you would expect, totally silent operation.

Side and rear view with Perspex side panel removed, shown with Noctua NH-P1 and a graphics card installed

Intel Alder Lake 13th Gen Processor

The 13th Gen Intel processors offer a significant improvement over previous generations, thanks to the improved Performance-cores (P-cores) and/or Efficient-cores (E-cores). The processors P-cores are optimised for single and lightly-threaded performance, while its E-cores, are optimised for scaling highly-threaded workloads. That means gamers, creators, and professionals can harness both intelligence and power to enhance the experiences that matter the most. All processors on the list feature P-cores, but not all offer E-cores. To give you an idea of much of an improvement the 13th gen is over the 11th Gen processors, take a look at the table below that shows some PassMark CPU Benchmarks, the higher the number the better the performance the processors offers.

The figures above are as of January 2023. They do change over time.

Choosing the correct CPU cooler

As mentioned above, this system is configured with a fanless CPU Cooler. The coolers in question are the Nofan 80-EH IcePipe or the Noctua NH-P1 CPU cooler. It is important to note that we do not recommend the Nofan cooler for all processors on the configurator. This is because the Max Turbo Power of some of the processors exceed the cooling capabilities of the Nofan cooler. The Noctua NH-P1 is suitable for all processors shown on the configurator below. The table below provides a easy to follow guide as to which cooler is suitable for a given CPU.

Nofan 80-EH, Noctua NH-P1 CPU Coolers

Motherboard Features and Options

There are two motherboards to choose from for this system. Both of them are ASUS motherboards that feature an Intel chipset and 1Gbps LAN, Realtek audio and support for up to 128GB RAM. The only real difference between the two motherboards is the amount and type of rear USB ports they offer. The Z790 motherboard does feature PCIe 5.0 and also has an extra M.2 port, allowing for three to be installed compared to the two the B660 board offers. The B660 does benefit from having an extra HDMI port and built-in Wi-Fi compared to the Z790. Please also note the B660 motherboard is not compatible with the Nofan CPU cooler. If opting for the B660 motherboard please choose the Noctua CPU cooler.

ASUS B660M motherboard

ASUS Z790M motherboard

ASUS B660M rear ports

ASUS Z790M rear ports

Storage considerations

When specifying your new PC’s storage options using our system configurator below, you will be offered a choice of drives which vary by price and capacity. There are two primary types of storage. A conventional hard disk drive (HDD) offers huge storage capacity for a low price, but it won’t be especially fast and it will generate a certain amount of running noise since it contains a constantly-rotating spindle. A solid state (SSD) or a M2 drive on the other hand, offer tremendous speed and absolutely silent operation, but they cost more than an HDD for any given capacity.

So if you need a lot of storage space (for videos or large quantities of digital photos for example), then we would recommend an HDD. On the other hand, if you prefer silence and speed (especially boot-up speed), then an SSD or M2 drive would be a better choice. Of course you can have more than one drive, so you could have the best of both worlds by choosing one of each! We recommend that customers chose an SSD or M2 drive as a boot drive that contains the operating system and important programs and a conventional HDD to store other data, but remember that if you intend to have a totally silent PC you might want to forgo the HDDs all together as they will make some noise due to their moving parts.

Clean Build™ Promise

The price of many pre-built PCs these days is often supported by cash kickbacks from software companies who pay hardware manufacturers to pre-install limited or trial versions of their software and then hope that the customer pays to upgrade to the full version. The downside to this approach is that the new PC comes pre-loaded with a lot of “junkware” which bloats the operating system and can cause severe performance degradation.

Here at Quiet PC we believe that customers have every right to expect the best possible performance from a brand new PC, so every system we build comes with our Clean Build™ promise. We install the operating system (if you order one), motherboard drivers, OS updates and Windows Security - that’s it. You won’t be pestered by pop-ups and nag screens and you can get on with using your new PC immediately without having to uninstall lots of junkware first. Your new machine will boot in super-quick time and will stay running quickly for many months and years to come.

Free hardware support and fully inclusive warranty

We offer free hardware technical support for as long as you own the machine. This support covers any hardware query or problem, including advice on maintenance and upgrades. We regret we can’t offer software support or training so we would recommend contacting the software vendor in this instance.

Our hardware warranty runs for at least two years and is “collect and return” meaning that you don’t need to worry about getting the machine back to us - we will instruct our courier to collect it from you on a day of your choosing, then after we have checked and repaired it we will send it back to you by express courier at our expense. In addition, unlike many other PC suppliers, we have an “open-case” policy which means you are free to open the machine and perform your own minor modifications or upgrades without worrying that your warranty might be affected.