Get something like an Optiplex 7050. Put an extra ow two SSD, they are cheap now. I'm multibooting Windows, Arch Linux, OpenBSD and FreeBSD on that machine. Everything works out of the box in OpenBSD.
https://www.hardware-corner.net/desktop-models/Dell-OptiPlex-7050-SFF/ El mié, 5 mar 2025 a las 9:58, sylv...@saboua.me (<sylv...@saboua.me>) escribió: > > I'm thinking of purchasing parts to an all-purpose *BSD personal computer. > My budget is ~€3000 (+1k). Ideally I would like it not too noisy while > staying as cool as possible (I live in a studio), and dual screen monitor > (I'm thinking of one HD screen to also watch movies on and one square > screen on the left for the console). > > First thing is the motherboard, processor, and RAM. Here also lies the > bottleneck : is there a motherboard/processor combo that can host > all four BSD's and derivatives ? If I'm not mistaken, I think the blowfish > does not maximally exploit multi-core processor, so a quad core (for instance) > is enough. It'd also be great to have it without MINIX's IME/PSP, > but I know this is asking too much ! Or is it ? > > Note that I live in Europe (SouthWestern France) so the stores of choice > would be LDLC, then Boulanger and FNAC. Unless I forget options. > > There's a long time since I haven't proerly hacked and built my own tower, > I don't remember all particular caveats of the best optimisation. Suffice to > say the computer hacking's main use would be to compile, fetch > various things from the network (no brainer, right ?), as well as, > more touchy, embedded / RISC-V development (hence connectics). > > Then I would also browse the web and use Word. > > Haha. Just kidding. But I'd like to watch a movie at times and have a good > HD screen and 5.1/7.1 speakers for that (the latter can come later). > > In terms of ergonomics, I already have an all-black basic keyboard, as well > as a small bépo one, and am thinking particularly of the mechanical and > TypeMatrix keyboards. Someone advised an incurved monitor as well as > blue light filter. I don't know much about mices, but I have short hands (I'm > 5"3). > > That's it. Any advice/feedback fom what you guys use ? > I dream of those towers with just one big fan on the right. > Ideally, the whole thing would not consume much. It also needs > not to be one of those huge gamer towers while still fairly powerful. > > Thank you >
