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deliriousdreams@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

I was able to overclock it to a crazy level. Played all kinds of games on it between me and my roommate. It was finiky using big picture mode (I ended up buying a dedicated mouse and keyboard for it to use on a lapboard at the time), but BPM gave me trouble with controllers, refusing to quit to desktop, and hanging on launching games occasionally.

A lot of Dell's BS software went the way of the dodo bird as soon as I could get rid of it for similar reasons. The update to windows 10 I also seem to remember giving me trouble. MS didn't consider it supported hardware. But it all worked out and now that thing is my media center PC. It's still running after all this time, which is crazy.

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