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  • Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
    Oct 5, 2024, 11:55 PM

    Gotta say, though, I got really really lucky with that GPU, as with the motherboard/RAM combo for such a low price (and that it's normal ATX instead of HPs proprietary stuff)!

    The GPU was sold as broken with intermittent shut-offs according to the seller, however even after playing GTAV on mostly high settings or Minecraft 1.21 with shaders didn't cause any issues so far! 🤞

    Maybe I should check the thermal paste, but even then, it didn't get hot much or spin up the fans too fast

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  • Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
    Oct 6, 2024, 12:01 AM

    Before stumbling across the RX570, I had an NVIDIA GTX580 in there, which was... a bit less fun to work with.

    It may work alright under Windows, but under Linux, being pretty much stuck with NVIDIAs outdated, proprietary drivers and no Vulkan support is a pain.

    And I sure as heck wasn't gonna go back to Windows for this one either, not for two weeks! <w<

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  • Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
    Oct 21, 2024, 6:06 PM

    So, two weeks with this system went by really uneventful! So much so I might've forgotten to take proof of me using this system for two weeks, darn it...

    For being such a budget oriented computer, it simply.. worked. And worked well. No hangs, no crashes, no real slowdowns to speak of, even with just 8GB of RAM.

    I've gamed on this thing, compiled kernels and OpenWRT images, continued on coding projects and even used it for work as much as I could, I'm really pleased :3

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  • Snep :floofHappy: @40C3snep
    Oct 21, 2024, 6:18 PM

    I'll probably keep using the CPU and the two existing RAM sticks in combination with an RTX 3060Ti I got cheap from a friend and two additional 4GB RAM sticks on a better ATX board as my daily driver, since the CPU is plenty speedy and the RAM is already running at 1600MT/s, but that HP board is just so horribly barebones.

    And whoever thought to put the 1x slot BELOW the 16x slot, I strongly dislike you!

    The left over components will be used as spares to fix other PCs I know could use some TLC

    A close up of the HP motherboard used in my sub-$50USD PC. Whilst it luckily is standard micro-ATX, it's also lacking a bunch of nice to have ports and headers. There's only two USB 3.0 ports in the rear, for example, and no USB 3.0 header internally. It also only comes with two RAM slots due do its size and only two PCIe slots, one of which is covered by the 16x slot right above it when a two slot tall GPU is installed.
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