Ideas for Project - Mini PC etc
NERD ALERT
After a recent Hardware failure I needed to order a couple of new parts and decided at the same time to upgrade my sons PC.
So I am left with this: Mini Mobo
Basically a basic powered Gigabyte Mobo with inbuilt AMD APU and GPU and I have 4GB of DDR3 for it which I could obviously upgrade.
Nothing special granted but was good enough for him to play Minecraft etc
Now fancy using it for some project, some media thing to sit behind the Telly ? Some old Retro gaming thing?? Not sure!
Help me out :-)
It has no PCI x16 etc just the ol' fashioned traditional PCI slot circa 90's (even though it is only 3/4 years old)
Think it can handle 16GB DDR3 max. (Checked Yes it can)
Nice and small.
What geek fest can I have with it ??
Thanks for ideas.
Re: Ideas for Project - Mini PC etc
How about a NAS drive to backup/Media storage your home PC's? Bung it in a cheap case with enough slots for 4 HDDs and leave connected somewhere out the way.
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Home automation, get a touch screen and chassis and control your lights etc
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i would go with a NAS myself
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Yep NAS and stick plex server on it and play your media anywhere ;)
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I know NAS seems like the obvious choice I just felt it wasn't exciting enough lol
Home automation would be nice but we are looking to move within the next 12 months so wont bother with that idea.
Cheers
Re: Ideas for Project - Mini PC etc
UnRAID server - NAS/Home automation/docker/game server etc - it does it all
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Originally Posted by
hilljd00
UnRAID server - NAS/Home automation/docker/game server etc - it does it all
Don't think it is powerful enough for that. Will look into it.
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Originally Posted by
piggzy
Don't think it is powerful enough for that. Will look into it.
get a case
whack a few 10TB hard drives in it
load it with the dirtiest skankiest porn you can find (im sure Det can help you with that)
Install Plex
Launch your own Plex Porn server
Die of wanking
job done!
Re: Ideas for Project - Mini PC etc
I'll end up with an arm like this :-)
http://i.imgur.com/fybdt.png