Submitted 5 months ago by Starglasses@lemmy.blahaj.zone to [deleted]
I upgraded my storage and ram on my PC so now I have these two extra components sitting around. I kind of want to build the tiniest PC I can. Where can I find some discussion for it?
Or what other things might they be used for that I wouldn’t even think of?
Thanks :)
Plenty of barebones mini PC’s that you can get for relatively cheap (under $200 or even close to $100). “Barebones” is a good keyword to search for because that means it doesn’t include RAM and a drive.
Look for an N100 or N200 processor if you want something that’s very small and power efficient (but it won’t be powerful enough for many games). Or, look for whatever fits your budget.
I learned that lesson recently about RAM. I have DDR4. I don’t care for gaming. I think it could be fun to have a dorky little mini-PC that can do all the PC stuff that I can tote around to show off :P
The biggest thing to worry about is DIMM vs SODIMM. The latter is much smaller, and probably what most mini PCs will use. So if you have full sized DIMM RAM, you might have trouble finding a mini PC that will work.
And even if it is the right size, you’ll still want to make sure that your motherboard supports your specific RAM clock speeds.
Build a pc for cheap and sell it for a shitton more than the parts cost.
Not likely. You’d still have tk buy the rest of it…, and cheaping out on everything., that’s still 50 for the case, PSU, mobo and the cpu is going to go to 100+ very quickly.
Used ram and m.2 cards; cheap everything else… built by a rando… (no offense, OP,) you’d make more selling the ram on eBay or something. (Five bucks, maybe.)
I bet if you buy some cheap ass components, ~500 for a budget mobo/ssd/psu. Slap a decent gpu in it and upcharge the shit out of it like people on ebay do
(no offense, OP)
None taken. I am absolutely a rando. Selling the stuff seems like the smartest idea. 8gb ram is so old and “small” anyways :)
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
Ah yes, the “using Nazi rhetoric is cool because it’s just a joak bro and also we had a vote and all my Nazi rhetoric using buddies agreed it was cool” community.
"we had a vote and all my Nazi rhetoric using buddies agreed it was cool”
It’s an at least 12 year old reference:
Like others have suggested, get a cheap barebone or a second hand NUC without a drive, a Zigbee USB stick and some ZB lightbulbs and power plugs. Install home-assistant. Automate your home. Warning, it’s very fun and rewarding, but also addictive and totally a rabbit hole that you can keep tweaking and improving indefinitely.
This. On a definitely unrelated note, I wonder where all my money went? I thought it would be easier when I have automatic lights and curtains to fade the house into awake and sleep modes but now I’m trying to solve this new mystery .
I would check the selfhosted communities
Look into Damn Small Linux (DSL), or whatever it’s evolved into. It feels very relevant here.
I suppose you could fit it into an other old PC that still has some slots free. Lots of PCs have 4 memory banks and people only ever bought 2. Either give it to a friend or if you want to build a tiny PC, search for Mini-PC on Amazon and buy one that has the correct specs for like $250 or go on eBay and buy an old Lenovo ThinkCentre, Fujitsu Esprimo or that form-factor from Dell or HP for like $100-$150. But it has to be the correct generation that supports your RAM.
It won’t be the tiniest PC, but a proper tiny PC probably has RAM soldered on anyways, like a Raspberry Zero and there are even smaller “PCs”.
Fanless PC as an OPNsense router. Probably somewhere between $100-$500 USD for the chassis and remaining parts depending on what you want it to do and how fancy you want to go.
They say “Vista was slow”, right? Try it on your setup and prove them wrong.
You could always get rid of it later on, you don’t have to keep it.
seaQueue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The SSD you can use on its own, go buy an RTL9210B USB enclosure and you’ve got a nice and fast portable flash drive. I bought a handful of all metal 9210 enclosures on AliExpress for like $10/ea.
Sell the ram for fun money, there’s nothing you can do with it on its own.