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The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)

#1

Post by networked » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC

#2

Post by goda90 » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:39 PM UTC

These are going for a few hundred dollars now due to demand.

#3

Post by Retr0id » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

#4

Post by swinglock » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:50 PM UTC

Much like the website, it's unavailable.

#5

Post by sparkling » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:51 PM UTC

Site (Wordpress) seems to have gotten the HN kiss of death

#6

Post by biglyburrito » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

Here's the GitHub repository linked by the (currently unreachable) article in the OP:

#7

Post by Levitating » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

The link died, but it's a cut-down PS5 APU previously sold for crypto mining apparently.

#8

Post by pgporada » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:07 PM UTC

This is the guide you need. I run one of these. https://elektricm.github.io/amd-bc250-docs/

#9

Post by marcinostefano » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:09 PM UTC

Levitating wrote: post #7

The link died, but it's a cut-down PS5 APU previously sold for crypto mining apparently.

Not so cut down - you can unlock more GPU and CPU cores (some of them might be broken).

#10

Post by thefounder » Sat, Sep 05, 2026, 2:11 PM UTC

So this is the future of the Nvidia B200 cards as well