You could probably get paid to take away a computer with better specs.
this post was submitted on 04 Jun 2024
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Literally any office pc that get sent to ewaste is better
Use the box the components are shipped in as the case.
Steal the computer mouse from the local police station for a bonus thrill.
Diablotek
That’s not a computer. That’s an incendiary device.
Perfect for playing Counter Strike!
Boots up PC
"The bomb has been planted"
You have nothing on the Tri-Fan 1200W https://www.crazysales.com.au/online-ritmo-force-1200-tri-fan-gaming-power-supply-2-3v-8373.html
That’s absolutely terrifying.
And they claim cheap SMRs don't exist yet xD
Here they are in an MSY (Australia) catalog from 2012:
Ritmo == SHAW == A-Power, all were in-house brands at MSY. I suspect the 1500W and 1200W might have been the same thing with varying amounts of lying, but perhaps they did also size the components slightly differently.
Sweet Jesus. I’ll just buy a small rectangular prism and some firecrackers thx hahaha
I "built" a "100€" gaming PC. I took home an old business workstation with a 4th Gen i5 that was discarded by one of my employer's customers and was about to be scrapped, put in 16GB of mismatched, used RAM my boss gave me out of the parts pile, and paid him 100€ for a GTX 1050TI that he had ordered to test something and couldn't return.
It was enough to run Cyberpunk 2077 on low settings, and replaced my former gaming PC I had duct-taped together out of parts my friends threw away after upgrading.
Those specs are pretty close to the gaming PC I built in 2013. 4th Gen i5 (4670K), 16GB DDR3 1600, and a 770 (later upgraded to a 1070 in 2016). Paid $1100 for it and used it for a decade; even in 2023 I could hit 60 FPS at 1080p in most new titles (with medium-low settings). If I didn't buy a 4K 120Hz OLED, I'd still be gaming on that PC today.
Lawl I use a 4670k/16GB DDR3/1070 as my backup VR machine! It plays most basic VR games (even Alyx) at 90FPS, it’s wild! I’ve got a backup 2070s I wanna put in but I’m hella lazy. I also have a backup 1080 but I don’t think it fits in like, any cases (318mm)
LOL yep that was my VR system for many years (haven't even hooked up the good old Vive to my new rig yet). Alyx ran amazingly smooth at 1.2x supersampling with little to no reprojection. It surprised me too.
It’s one of the best processors for the money in the last 20 years for sure! I’m hoping my 9900k in my main machine does that well. I can’t believe that’s like 4? 5? years old now already but I haven’t had any need to upgrade it hahaha.
What’s in your new rig?
Ryzen 7700X, 32GB DDR5 6000, 4TB NVME, and a 4090. By far the most high-end rig I've ever built (and probably ever will).
I would have never been able to build such a powerful machine, but long story short I bought as much Bitcoin as I could while working my $14/hr job during COVID and it paid off. Almost embarrassed to admit this, given how anti-crypto Lemmy is. But hey, allowed me to build the PC of my dreams. I feel guilty for bragging.
I never got into crypto but I have zero issue with it, other than the energy cost. Got a bunch of BTC on an old IDE HDD somewhere I will never see… but that’s most people’s story hahaha
But nice fucking job, that’s a MONSTER of a machine. I’d you’re working 14/hr during the VID, you fucking deserve it.
- I should qualify never got into crypto; I was part of a mining pool in the early 00s and got some like 5USD BTC, now that was like eight computers ago
This was 2014 so those were fairly high end specs at the time
I think you’d have paid about 800-1000USD for those back then
Those VIA C7 CPUs were extremely slow even when they were brand new.
(Source: owned one)
That is not a bad deal holy shit where is this?
Edit: didn't see the screenshot was from 2014
A modern rasp pi could beat that for half the price
Raspberry pi might beat it for speed but not for half the price. Even the barest-bone 4gb pi5 is $60, and that's without storage or power supply. You're at at least 3/4s the price once those are factored in.
And that's just considering raw speed. If you expect to play "PC" games, you're probably going to want an x86. Raspi may well lose at that point
I honestly tell people not to buy a RasPi unless they really need the specific hardware form factor (GPIO, etc). For virtually every application, a second-hand USFF PC is cheaper and more powerful, has better I/O and comes with a quality PSU.
1000%. Used PCs are the way to go over a raspberry pi unless you have specific accessories or something. Almost everyone just uses a raspberry pi as a USB host or for network services anyway. Gpio use cases tend to be better served by Arduino or esp32 too
I liked SBCs when they were more like $35, but the price is now out of control for what they offer. I will probably just get used mini PCs instead if I ever need something similar. I'll be able to replace RAM, SSD, and potentially even the CPU. I'll get a case and PSU with the base price.
What does the Pi even offer over the low wattage mini PCs now? I don't need a whole Linux to run a few GPIOs, I could buy ESP32 things for a few dollars each. The only benefit is the small size and being able to run off the ubiquitous USB wall plugs.
Is there a pi that costs the funny sex number though? Asking the real questions.
$69.96
Nice 😎
Here's how you build a high-spec's top-tier gaming PC for a hundred dollars:
1 - Go to your non-local consumer electronics store
2 - Find the most miserable looking employee
3 - "Hey bro, I give you 100 bucks if you tell me your guys' security code"
4 - Come back at night
5 - You get the idea
4 - He gives you a false code, but takes your money.
5 - You come back at night and the cops summarily arrest you.
You can get Motherboard, ram, power supply, hard drive, fans, cpu basically for free if you try hard enough then spend your $100 on a gpu.
Use PCs are cheap, never forget this fact.
I know it's 2014, but getting a used PC is a good way to get a "gaming" pc for $100. Although the quality jumps significantly with $300.
90€ for a thinkcentre with a quad core i5-6400, 290€ for the best gpu you can get (used, check power consumption), steal a mouse & keyboard at work for free, 20€ for a good soup and you're good to go.
20€ for a good soup
That must be some killer soup
They must mean one of those country restaurants that's a converted house where you can buy amazing soup by the gallon.
Wait that's European. I mean... Kilo.. Gallon.. Liter. Fuck.
You're not getting good soup for €20/kilolitre or kilogallon.
Maybe for a kilomicroinch
Mmmmm lobster bisque
I bought mine in a pricey country for around $350 and upgraded the RAM for a $100. Since I play mostly discounted games that are at least 5 years old it's been great. Highly recommend giving the devs some time to finish the game after it's released (looking at you Cyberpunk)
I know, not the same, but I built my kid a cheap "Gaming" laptop from an old corporate PC that was going to be scrapped because it restarted every hour of use.
Cleaned the cooling fins and fan, repasted both cpu and gpu, got a cheap ssd and extra sodimm of ram. Was good for about a year or so until he got my Ryzen rig :)
I've paid more for Raspberry Pi's. Not including the charger, SD card, input/output devices, etc.
Lots of games worked just fine on a 486...
Commander Keen and Lemmings should keep you busy for a few evenings at least.
Protect your investment
Build a rack of rpis
I had a gaming PC in 2014. It was definitely better than that.
You paid more or less than $100 for it?
Irrelevant. The title says "The best computer from 2014," implying that that's what this build is. It is not. It's not even close. 2004 would get you a lot closer. Also 100 bucks in 2014 goes a lot farther than it does today because of inflation, and I'm assuming the person in the image is referring to $100 in 2024.
When a label is so obviously wrong, one should suspect irony.
Which, to be fair, could also be applied to your comments, though if you are trolling, you're doing so from the uncanny valley, which is risky if you care how it's received.
which is risky if you care how it’s received.
You don't have to explain to me that posting is "serious business." I'm not new to webzones.
I remember building my Pentium 200 from Computer Shopper. Spent almost a month going through pages to make it affordable.