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Sentinel Mini
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Quiet PC Sentinel Mini

The Sentinel Mini is our smallest high-specification compact PC that comes fully-built and ready to go. It is perfect as a general purpose machine or a dedicated media PC.

Features

  1. Fully built quiet PC, configurable to your exact requirements
  2. Uniquely designed for high performance and low running noise
  3. We build to your specification and deliver within 7 days
  4. Clean Build™ Promise and original OS+drivers supplied on DVDs
  5. Two year warranty with open-case policy
  6. Mini ITX motherboard offers many features and low power consumption

Beauty, power and silence

The Sentinel Mini PC offers great performance, low power consumption and very quiet running noise. Only 77mm high and 197mm wide, it is functional, attractive and unintrusive. The machine is supplied in a shot-blasted finish and its fascia is clean, elegant and uncluttered.

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 32 Gigabytes of memory and one of Intel’s latest 8th or 9th 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 8GB for this operating system to perform at its best.

Two motherboards, HDMI 2.0 option

The Sentinel Mini has two motherboards to choose from. The main reason for this is due to the fact we have had many customers ask if it is possible to run a 4K @ 60Hz TV/Monitor via a HDMI port. For this to happen there has to be a HDMI 2.0 port, but it is very rare for a motherboard to have HDMI 2.0 built in. That is until Gigabyte released their Z390I-AORUS Wi-Fi motherboard which features a HDMI 2.0 port as standard. This means it is now possible to run anything at 4K @ 60Hz without the need for a graphics card. This not only reduces the overall power consumption of the system, as no graphics card is required, but also reduces the cost of the system. Of course HDMI 2.0 may not be required for all customers and therefore we suggest opting for the less expensive ASUS ROG STRIX B360-I ITX motherboard if that is the case.

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 choose an SSD or M2 drive as a boot drive that contains the operating system and important programs. A conventional HDD would store other data but remember that if you intend to have a totally silent PC, you might want to forgo the HDDs altogether 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 Microsoft Security Essentials / Windows Defender - 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 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.

SpecificationsSentinel Mini
Machine nameSentinel Mini PC
Compatible Operating SystemsWindows 10
Chassis Material100% Aluminium
Power supplyNanoPSU
MotherboardASUS ROG STRIX B360-I GAMING or Gigabyte GA-Z390I-AORUS PRO WIFI
GraphicsIntel UHD
Graphics ports (B360)HDMI and DisplayPort
Max resolution DisplayPort (B360)4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz (DP1.2)
Max resolution HDMI (B360)4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz / 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz (HDMI 1.4b)
Graphics ports (Z390)HDMI and DisplayPort
Max resolution DisplayPort (Z390)4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz (DP1.2)
Max resolution HDMI 1 (Z390)4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz (HDMI 2.0)
Maximum shared graphics memory1024 MB
M.2 connector2
SATA RAID Support (B360)Not supported
SATA RAID Support (Z390)RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
LANIntel Gigabit LAN 1 port
LAN (B360)Intel I219-V Gigabit LAN
LAN (Z390)Intel Gigabit LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (B360)Not supported
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (Z390)Intel CNVi interface Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac and BT v5.0
Rear ports (B360)Displayport, HDMI, 2x USB 2.0 (black), 1x USB 3.1 (blue), 1x USB 3.1 Type-C,
Rear ports (Z390)1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (red), 1x USB 3.1 gen2 Type-C, 2x USB 3.1 gen1 (blue), 1x Displayport, 1x HDMI,
Audio (B360)ROG SupremeFX S1220A CODEC
Audio (Z390)Realtek ALC1220-VB codec High Definition Audio
Extra ports2x USB3.0, 2x USB2.0, headphone and mic port
PC dimensions (H x W x D)77 x 197 x 197 mm
Clean Build™ promiseOS+updates, drivers and MS Security Essentials only
Recovery methodWindows installation and drivers DVDs supplied
Warranty typeCollect and return, open-case policy
Warranty24 months
SpecificationsSentinel Mini
Machine nameSentinel Mini PC
Compatible Operating SystemsWindows 10
Chassis Material100% Aluminium
Power supplyNanoPSU
MotherboardASUS ROG STRIX B360-I GAMING or Gigabyte GA-Z390I-AORUS PRO WIFI
GraphicsIntel UHD
Graphics ports (B360)HDMI and DisplayPort
Max resolution DisplayPort (B360)4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz (DP1.2)
Max resolution HDMI (B360)4096 x 2160 @ 24 Hz / 2560 x 1600 @ 60 Hz (HDMI 1.4b)
Graphics ports (Z390)HDMI and DisplayPort
Max resolution DisplayPort (Z390)4096 x 2304 @ 60 Hz (DP1.2)
Max resolution HDMI 1 (Z390)4096 x 2160 @ 60 Hz (HDMI 2.0)
Maximum shared graphics memory1024 MB
M.2 connector2
SATA RAID Support (B360)Not supported
SATA RAID Support (Z390)RAID 0, 1, 5 and 10
LANIntel Gigabit LAN 1 port
LAN (B360)Intel I219-V Gigabit LAN
LAN (Z390)Intel Gigabit LAN chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (B360)Not supported
Wi-Fi and Bluetooth (Z390)Intel CNVi interface Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g/n/ac and BT v5.0
Rear ports (B360)Displayport, HDMI, 2x USB 2.0 (black), 1x USB 3.1 (blue), 1x USB 3.1 Type-C,
Rear ports (Z390)1x USB 3.1 Gen 2 (red), 1x USB 3.1 gen2 Type-C, 2x USB 3.1 gen1 (blue), 1x Displayport, 1x HDMI,
Audio (B360)ROG SupremeFX S1220A CODEC
Audio (Z390)Realtek ALC1220-VB codec High Definition Audio
Extra ports2x USB3.0, 2x USB2.0, headphone and mic port
PC dimensions (H x W x D)77 x 197 x 197 mm
Clean Build™ promiseOS+updates, drivers and MS Security Essentials only
Recovery methodWindows installation and drivers DVDs supplied
Warranty typeCollect and return, open-case policy
Warranty24 months

Customer Reviews

A great little machine

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After working solely on a laptop for several years, I got fed up with that and decided to get a desktop for my web development work. But I still required something that would be easy enough to move every few weeks, so I decided on this Sentinel Skylake Mini, Ubuntu pre-installed, i5 6600T CPU with 16GB memory.

It’s a good small size; I haven’t seen the processor go above 40 degrees; it’s very fast with many programs running, at least for what I do (note that I’m not a gamer so I couldn’t comment on its abilities in that direction); and it’s very quiet. It’s not completely silent but then I didn’t expect that.

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