My salvaging/refurbishing went okay for under 150 euros, I can't afford 32GB of #DDR5. Take away:
- #Intel I7-3770 and no external GPU is plenty enough -> The CPU idles at around 70W, but as a workstation, it's fine.
- No AVX2, but #AVX still, there is a GPU.
- #Kingston Hyper X DDR3 is fine (slower than Vengeance CL wise).
- #Gigabyte still produced amazing boards in 2011 (PCIe x8x8).
- No TPM 2.0 -> No need for Unix systems.
#retrocomputing #ITsupport #IT #computer
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