what's the thinkpad of used desktop PCs?
I've used exclusively a laptop since I went to college, now that I want a cheap desktop I only find dell optiplex and hp elitedesk in the 100-200 price range (probably refurbished office equipment)
do you have one? I know they have a proprietary PSU but I'm not aware of other problems
I know a ryzen 2200g build would be way more powerful and future proof but seems to cost at least twice with the current RAM prices
I've ordered a optiplex 9020 minitower and I'm planning to stick a low profile GPU in it, how fucked I am?
Cheap desktop
Robert Gonzalez
Daniel Anderson
>I've used exclusively a laptop since I went to college, now that I want a cheap desktop I only find dell optiplex and hp elitedesk in the 100-200 price range
so you're an college educated person with $200 budget?
shouldn't you make that in like... 4 hours?
Joseph Brooks
Install arch
Chase Robinson
that's what i was about to suggest
i'm running one now with a 3570 in it as a media consumption machine. it will actually fit a regular (a smallish one anyway) video card. i've got a 760 in mine.
Ethan Roberts
I'm a dropout and a NEET, still I have enough money to buy a mac pro but why should I?
>it will actually fit a regular (a smallish one anyway)
how about the power supply, did you upgrade it? for smallish I should look for low profile or what? sorry never build anything, I can replace thermal paste but that's it
I'm probably going for KDE after years of unity/gnome (kde on ubuntu was always shit in my experience), does arch still have good builds for it?
Alexander Bailey
yeah, i replaced the PSU with one I had lying around as well, though I probably didn't really need to. By smallish I just mean not one of those extra-long monster GPUs like a 1080 or something with a huge cooler. something average sized like an old r9 280 would be fine
Jaxon Morales
>what's the thinkpad of used desktop PCs?
an used thinkstation
Logan Gonzalez
do you have one?
is a xeon fast enough in single-core?
Brayden Jones
I don't remember the model, but I fished a server out of a uni office dumpster. Quad-core 2.4GHz Xeon, with 16GB of, iirc, ECC ram. Literally nothing wrong with it at all. Has at least four hard drive bays, and they even left the caddys.
If one can find the right places, people throw out really good stuff. At my apartments near the uni, someone tossed an i7 3770 with 8GB of ram pre-built. Motherboard was shit on it, but I already had an i5 3570 machine. I even bought a newer motherboard because I had recently switched cases and decided it was time to step up to USB 3.0 and gigabit.
William Lee
>what's the thinkpad of used desktop PCs?
old servers like pic related