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I can never tell what I'm supposed to be optimizing personal PC workstations for. And at this point I'm too embarrased to ask. I like the ideas, in the abstrac

I can never tell what I'm supposed to be optimizing personal PC workstations for. And at this point I'm too embarrased to ask. I like the ideas, in the abstract, of optimizing for extreme silence (zero moving parts in OP's previous DB4 build), or extreme compactness (like this oddity), and so forth. I'm sure they're all terribly wrong choices for me personally, but I'm glad other people are exploring them, that the solution space is well characterized.

neogodless 4y ago
> what I'm supposed to Pretty much it's personal. Either what you need for work or play, or what you want or some reasonable mix of those. Personally, I like overkill and tranquility (and value). I'm not 100% there, but I'm close, because I have a powerful (but not maximum performance) machine that produces a little noise (but nothing grating.) Someone that loves silence wouldn't like the slight hum, and someone that wants maximum quality 4K gaming or machine-learning wouldn't love the 10% performance I left on the table to save (quite) a few bucks (while reducing power and cooling requirements some.)
VHRanger 4y ago
The truth is that you're much better off with an interior solution (taking a tradeoff between future expandability, budget, etc.) than a corner solution like extreme compactness