Quiet PC Sentinel Fanless i17

This high-specification compact fanless PC comes fully-built and ready to go. It has no fans for zero noise, zero dust and zero maintenance. It features a 12th gen Intel processor, making ideal as a general purpose machine or a dedicated media PC.

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Beauty and power in your living room

We are pleased to announce this ground-breaking example of living room PC - the revamped Quiet PC Sentinel Fanless i17. A perfect compromise of beauty and practicality, it is just 250mm wide and 110mm high so small enough to fit virtually anywhere. The machine is supplied in a shot-blasted silver, black or titanium finish and its fascia is clean, elegant and uncluttered. Only the power button, power light and remote control sensor (optional) and two USB 3.0 ports are visible on the front of the case.

Top Performance and Reliability

Because we use a fully-featured motherboard, the PC is a very capable unit. It can be built with up to 64 Gigabytes of memory and one of Intel’s 12th Generation Core processors. Famous for their excellent performance/value balance, these processors have the latest architecture and offer excellent performance. We recommend a minimum memory specification of at least 8GB for the operating system to perform at its best.

Photo showing internal component layout - internal tray has been removed to give a better view. (Motherboard RGB lights can be turned off.)

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.

Motherboard Features and Options

This particular computer utilises either the Z690 or the B660 chipset. Each motherboard offer improved connectivity like PCIe 4 speeds for all connected M.2 drives, Wi-Fi 6 and USB 3.2 USB ports. The Z690 chipset has improved connectivity over the B660, it offers faster USB ports, an extra M.2 socket, faster 2.5Gb/s LAN port and the potential of M.2 RAID. Below are images of each motherboard available in this system with a table that shows some of the specifications each motherboard offers.

B660M-ITX motherboard

Z690M-ITX motherboard

B660M-ITX motherboards ports

Z690M-ITX motherboards ports

Power supply

There are two options in the configurator below for this system. The first is the Nano120, which is more than adequate for all i3 processors or lower, while the Nano160 is ideal for the i5 and above processors. Please follow this rule as using a Nano120W on an i7 for example will be unstable as some processors can use more than their stated wattage due to Max Turbo Frequency. Both NanoPSU are supplied with an external AC adaptor block that will sit outside of the PC.

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.