I have seen a bunch of these on eBay over the years a few were even marketed as Windows 98 gaming pcs Usually sold with less than 2 GHZ dunno if the chip is socket'd or soldered.
i see Windows XP and 7 but rarely Windows 10
(you can have a fast absolute bare bones Linux so what *nix os is supported there doesn't tell us much)
Any experience converting the to desktop computers?
Can these be upgraded to be a decent gaming pc for mid 2000s games, how much can you upgrade these are they worth a go?
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How much are they going for on eBay?
>thin client
>gaming
>upgrade
Just get a used thinkcentre or thinkstation. You'll be much more happy with that.
less than $100 on avarage
also they say you can run them in the car via 12volt addapter,
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I use a t620 as a low power server, it only uses ~7 watt. Bought two for 40 eur each, they currently run Debian but could run any distro you throw at them because they are essentially just low-power semi-custom amd64's in a small case. I gave one 16gb of ddr3 ram and 120 gb nvme storage(added 35 eur). It 's been hosting alot of stuff for me no problem, with 24/7 uptimes.
its not that fast, but its perfect for anything small you might want to host. I'm currently running a gitlab, ts3 server, minecraft server, web server and a few other things on it like grafana. all easily managable using docker.
that said, it will probably suck big time as a stand-alone desktop pc, but it has an apu that can run 2010-era things so thats something.
>Bought two for 40 eur each,
Losts of these are very cheap
>it only uses ~7 watt.
= good battery life if you are traveling with a leisure battery.
> essentially just low-power semi-custom amd64's in a small case
t620
Random listing describes it as having
>Window Embedded Standard 7 - Possibility to install Windows 7
1,65 GHZ cpu
Is that replaceable though sometimes these are soldered on, as long as its not an obscure socket.
>It will probably suck big time as a stand-alone desktop pc
Because of lag or shitty graphics hardware?
> but it has an apu that can run 2010-era things so thats something.
Guessing it would be fine as a backup pc or something to use during power cuts,
XP or a Distro with similar requirements should run fine?
those are meant for simple things like text editing. they have barely enough power to drive the windows ui.
They're pretty powerful nowadays, but you're not going to do any gaming on them.
They reach high temperatures on idle.
I don't know what sort of integrated GPUs these have, but I imagine some of them would be able to run old games.
What are good stats in 1998, 2001, 2007, 2014?
for a reasonable desktop computer
What are stats for minimalist computers in 1998, 2001, 2007, 2014?
Moore's law projects these would catch up
>They're pretty powerful nowadays,
so you could get a miniature computer matching what were decent stats
>They reach high temperatures on idle.
maybe better cooling can help
>integrated GPUs
probably something basic
external graphics card maybe
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