ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
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ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
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Re: ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
#2wondering how is idle power after optimization
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#3wondering how is idle power after optimization
Unfortunately I don't have the tools to measure the power draw directly from the outlet.
But the software reports 30-45W power draw when the systems at max load. However lower-end titles and idle draw hovers between 10W-20W.
Re: ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
#4How well does HDMI CEC work on this?
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#5How well does HDMI CEC work on this?
Not at all
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#6How well does HDMI CEC work on this?
If you get the right adapter, I've seen others get HDMI CEC working.
However, quality of life features like sleep/hibernate don't work at all on this system. I've also seen people use an ESP32 to power on the system with a bluetooth controller which is pretty neat especially if you combined that with CEC.
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#7From the article:
> MESSA_SHADER_CACHE_MAX_SIZE
MESSA indeed.
Re: ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
#8How well does HDMI CEC work on this?
It has no HDMI port. Some DP > HDMI adapters do CEC.
Re: ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
#9How well does HDMI CEC work on this?
If you get the right adapter, I've seen others get HDMI CEC working. However, quality of life features like sleep/hibernate don't work at all on this system. I've also seen people use an ESP32 to power on the system with a bluetooth controller which is pretty neat especially if you combined that with CEC.
I just added CEC to mine today by soldering some wires to my DP-to-HDMI adapter and having Claude write some firmware to run on a Pi Pico to inject the CEC messages at the right time.
It's not the most elegant solution but felt in the spirit of the whole BC-250 experience.
Re: ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine
#10Recent development has 2 / 8 of the CPU cores able to be unlocked too. Originally shipped with 6 CPU cores enabled.