bit_user osirhc17 said: Y'all keep your PCs on the ground? The one I use most is on the floor, sitting at the far side of my desk. It's inaudible at that distance. I used all Noctua fans and set custom curves, but I can still hear them at idle, if it's on my desk. Also, the air near the floor is coolest. tiredcrow said: My desktop is in fact on top of my desk I have more PCs (and networking gear) than desk space! : D I also have what was originally a hi fi rack next to my desk (at 90 degrees, so it's facing me and in easy reach), which holds some audio gear and my KVM switches. Reply
abufrejoval bit_user said: I've started doing new builds on an open "bench" setup, until I've got the cooler mounted and know everything works properly. Same here: I assemble my systems typically on a mainboard box until I'm convinced everything works. And during that time, which may involve more reboots than ever after, it's tyically a screw driver to power, shutdown or reset, often in the midst of a blank screen and a drive I'd rather not corrupt. I used to have external toggles and buttons on long cables for things like Turbo or changing SCSI IDs for flexible boot orders, but they may be hiding in some deeper drawers now. CMOS-clear was another one I yearned to have a switch for, when doing DDR5 RAM overclock and dual-DIMM-per-channel tests. But I guess cleanging out those drawers would actually be better than buying something new that's so easy to get lost within them. Reply
abufrejoval osirhc17 said: Y'all keep your PCs on the ground? Last PC on the desk was an IBM PC-AT clone in 1986. While it looked very much like the original, it had a top opening hinge cover, which only required heaving the EGA monitor off its back to access its entrails. And in those times everything was configured via DIP switches or jumpers, so going inside was far more frequent than it is today beyond initial building. It also still had floppies, or at least one 1.2MB drive, that was needed to move data and software via the sneaker-net and for backups, the main reason to have it in arms reach. Everything 80386 and beyond was proper tower cases and floor standing as if it was a Micro-VAX., quite the look (and functionality) I was aiming for, backups moved to QIC tapes or Syquest removable disks but reaching drives didn't mean bending low on a full height tower. Once the Internet replaced the sneaker-net and backups went to secondary PCs, there was no longer any need to look at computers or physically interact with them for operations (vs. configuration). I never understood the urge for bling bling, my focus was always on the screen and any desktop void filled by them not the boxes behind/below. Only NUCs and NUCalikes (eight, currently) became horizontal again, but would then go into a metal mesh shoe-stand to form clusters with some ventilation in a space somewhat crowded by tower PCs (seven at this moment). The giant desk is a wall of screen with cascaded KVMs below and network switches behind (also plenty of cables, good things screens got to be flat!), a top shelf holds Raspis or other tiny computers, WIFI AP, a firewall and until last week a corporate laptop finally returned after a 45 year career in IT. That's not counting other rooms or family… I eliminated books, folders, filing cabinets, CDs, DVDs or pretty near everything that could be made digital-only, so net-net I might have saved some space, but I guess the next challenge is still reducing footprints, all of them. Reply
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