My daily driver is an M1 Max MBP which I’m happy with, but if I were to build a Linux productivity box (no gaming, that’s handled by a different machine), something like a 7840U on an ITX board with a cooler just big enough to practically never be audible would sound pretty great.
All Ryzen 7000 have a small GPU. It is not meant for gaming but enough for productive work. You can get 12 cores at 65W with the 7900. Could be passively cooled for complete silence.
[edit] The 7900 delievers ~89% of the performance of the 7900X at 170W. 7700 & 7600 90% compared to the X counterparts.
My daily driver is an M1 Max MBP which I’m happy with, but if I were to build a Linux productivity box (no gaming, that’s handled by a different machine), something like a 7840U on an ITX board with a cooler just big enough to practically never be audible would sound pretty great.