I built a totally silent machine. havent measured its noise output, but no one putting their ear up to it has been able to hear it yet. its in a coolermaster half case, 40 x 43 cm (15.5 x 17 inches) with the two front fans replaced with noctuas. dont remember the cpu fan, but its on a quad core i7 and doing fine. there are no cards on the motherboard since the onboard video is just fine for qubes.
16 gigs seems to be plenty for most uses of qubes. i was able to mostly work on 8 gigs, but it was tight. ive worked with 32 gigs, and of course, it was fine, but i doubt it would have been any worse in 16. unless, of course, your doing something that needs lots of ram. i would go with a 1tb ssd and 32 gigs of ram, given that the prices isnt much more than 16. note that much of my work is text editing, occasional compiling, and otherwise over ssh to other machines, or in a web browser. throwing in office docs, and image editing would probably be the simlar memory wise, though photoshop could easily push that to 32 gigs. most things i can think of which would need more ram cant be done on qubes anyway, due to the lack of color calibration, 3d acceleration, hypervisor nesting etc. in those cases id have a dedicated offline work station and use qubes for everything else. since its a desktop, you can also do a removable drive tray for other OSes. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/6d766c0c-d700-4f93-9e65-63c9dcf8320c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
