Which way do you prefer or "Have it your way."

[ChaosLord]

BTW, sometime ago, I suggested to Amiga-like-OS developers, like AROS for example, to choose ONE (just one) configuration:
- Let's say:
* Intel Core i5-3570K (Ivy Bridge)
* Intel DZ77GA-70K, Intel Z77 Express, BIOS 0049
* Sapphire Radeon HD 7970
* (2 x 4 GB) Crucial PC3-12800 kit

All users here would be able to create their own AROS-Amiga y1000 with not a huge amount of money
They (developers) would be able to do things just one time, knowing exactly what to expect.

Of course, they would have to ignore any other request, like: "ohhh, but I have a nice i3 or this motherboard is prettier/cooler or whatever". At the end of the day, is a niche/hobbyist OS, not a competitor to Windows, Ubuntu or Android. Not even OSX tries to support several different HW...

It's a lost battle trying to support a lot of hardware.

I always say the same thing.  But nobody listens to me.

[ChaosLord]

Personally I don't even bother with graphics cards, onboard graphics is good enough for me since I don't play PC games so that takes one of the major headaches out of the equation.

I am the same way!

I refuse to use a gfx card because they burn waaaaaaaaaay toooo much electricity and they heat up my apartment more than the whole rest of the computer.  Plus they always have a supernoisy fan.  I use onboard, cool, quiet low-electricty onboard gfx just like an Amiga.

Onboard gfx is plenty good enuff to run Chrome and write msgs on Amiga.org

[ChaosLord]

I like to build PCs, but I build them for quietness and efficiency rather than for performance.

ur so awesome!  I love your philosophy!

 Also I prefer small systems to huge tower cases.

I don't care how big the case is but I would tend toward a larger case so it can have more drive bays.

My old firefox pc from 2004 broke down recently so I suddenly needed a new puter and I bought a random Acer computer from NewEgg thinking that modern computers would be super quiet....  well... it is totally silent.  Except the hard drive makes this chirp sound sometimes, kind of like a click.  Its really noticeable.  Just some idiosyncracy of the 2TB hard drive.

If the computer had not made that chirpy noise then my friend would have bought the exact same model of computer.  He is like me he wants something quiet.

I had absolutely no way to figure out how to buy a silent pc at a reasonable price.  There were websites advertising silent pcs but they were really tremendously expensive and were lacking various features like VGA ports or PS/2 ports.  I am certainly not paying top dollar for a computer that does not even have PS/2 ports!

So anyway I ended up getting this random Acer mass market puter and am having a "meh" experience with it.

I should have asked for your advice.  There it went again, that loud chirpy noise.

[ChaosLord]

is it a laptop?

No way.  I never ever ever ever ever ever buy laptops.  They are really bad for your eyeballs.  Also my keyboard is a lot better than any laptop keyboard so its much healthier for my hands.

[ChaosLord]

Really the way to fix that is get an SSD...no more noise.

I know that will work.  But I also know that they make silent hard drives (or silent enuff).  I have used computers that were super quiet back in 2005 and they were just randomly purchased at Best Buy.  They used normal spinning hard disks.

[ChaosLord]

You can get a 3.2Tb SSD if you have 15 grand spare. But you can get 1Tb HDD for £40 ish so I wouldn't bother yet. Use SSD for the OS and frequently accessed files, and HDD for bulk storage.

I picked up a couple of 4TB Seagate hard drives from NewEgg for $170.00 each to reward NewEgg for fighting against Evil Patent Trolls.  The drives seem nice and quiet so far but I haven't used them that much yet.

[ChaosLord]

Now I've gone and bought a Cherry G80 mechanical keyboard though. CLUNK CLUNK CLUNK!

Install padding or O-rings and it will get much quieter.  You can get thick 40A O-rings from WASDkeyboards.com

And if you want it to be really really quiet you can lube the switches too; that will quiet the upstroke quite a bit.