I sit my PC behind my desk on a ledge, next to a bookshelf. A fan recently started rattling and I was wondering to put up with it or go through the trouble of finding the source.
Saving for a new build in Black Friday so I guess I could put up with it for a few months. Not sure if the problem could even be fixed
Since I went with a MiniITX build I’ve never felt more free in where I can place my PC.
My computer used to sit under my desk for years, gathering dust and just being this bulky annoying thing that I never knew what to do with. I made an eBay filter telling me when a new listing with the words ‘mini itx bundle’ came up, and after a few months I managed to snag a great mini itx bundle. I needed then was a case and a power supply.
Tinkered with it for a day and it works great. The PC lives on my desk now, and I can easily change a drive, or move a cable that is grinding on a fan if I need to (damn CPU cooler fans and their long cables!!). I even ended up moving my pc to the living room for the weekend to play Armored Core on the projector, as streaming to the living room would have latency.
All I’m saying is that a mini itx build is a liberating build, and it’s much quieter and runs as cool as my full tower that is supposed to have ‘great’ airflow.