Your logic isn’t sound, it’s being “old hardware” doesn’t necessarily mean it’s reliability is degraded.
Not on these time scales anyways.
Quality solid state hardware can continue operating as intended for many decades without degradation.
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possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well that’s really not a surprise since it is old hardware. I would go for something newer as that machine is a space heater. You can pickup used mini PCs or workstations with newer CPUs in them.
douglasg14b@lemmy.world 6 months ago
SRo@lemmy.sdf.org 6 months ago
Nah that thing is using power like a space heater. The dude above is right, a mini pc for 180 bucks is faster and the power efficiency is not even comparable. Sometimes old stuff is like that; outdated and obsolete.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 6 months ago
Well the RAM is bad so it apparently didn’t last to long. Admittedly it can from eBay but the problem is older hardware is that it pulls extra power and is clunky.
It might be different if we were talking about something lower grade with a lower TDP but this hardware pulls a lot can can be defeated performance wise by a newer CPU that’s only a few years old.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 6 months ago
Can build a Sleper PC with it.
Zeon@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Well, this build is specifically for gaming with Libreboot so due to the limitations with the motherboard I’m stuck using the Xeon processor. Its not bad tbh runs everything well.
victorz@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Define “everything”. Everything installed?