Spyke

Nice.

I just bought one of those used ASRock BC-250 crypto mining boards to use a a DIY SteamMachine, and apparently they're basically the same hardware that's in a PS5. Probably going to run either SteamOS or Bazzite on it.

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lemmy.world

You have any benchmark stats for those boards? Really curious to see how that APU stacks up against other various budget gaming setups.

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startrek.website

I ordered it and a power supply for it yesterday so don't have it on hand yet.

I read about it here: https://www.techeblog.com/budget-steam-machine-asrock-bc-250-ps5-apu/

And there's a video on that page where the guy has stats overlay up as he goes through various games. The FPS even on modern games is pretty respectable. I don't have any kind of gaming system or modern console (X360 is the newest gaming system I own) so as long as I can play what's in my Steam library I'm content.

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What did you pay for it?

I've seen them go from dirt cheap to pretty expensive

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They’re very cut down and don’t perform anywhere near as well. Although trying to find the original video I saw I found one where they were able to unlock the entire thing so YMMV on that.

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If it can run Linux, it can probably play Xbox games in the browser via GamePass Ultimate ($23/month, but if OP is true, it means Xbox games on PlayStation. Which isn’t nothing).

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