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

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Post by tonyedgecombe » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 4:59 AM UTC

qlte wrote: post #73

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes but I'm also getting a bit tired of reading complaints about it as well.

Sure it's noise but it does serve a valuable purpose so I don't waste my limited time reading an article on the front page if I see a consensus from dozens of AI complaints in the comments. Dang at one point mentioned HN was planning to create another flag button specifically for obviously AI written content which would be the best solution IMO. If implemented then trivial AI complaints could be considered spam and t…

I’m not sure about that. I suspect we are getting a lot of false positives. Several times the author of an article has joined the conversation and vehemently denied using AI.

Ultimately the post appears here because it is getting upvotes. If people didn’t want it then they wouldn’t upvote it.

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

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Post by Krutonium » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 5:00 AM UTC

nsbk wrote: post #32

tombardier wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

WoWLAN is a thing. On my motherboard it works so well that it wakes up whenever my phone, laptop or steam deck connect to the WiFi, not just when I actually send the magic packets!

First time I hear about WoWLAN, thanks! I will check if it can work with my cheap usb Wifi adapter. Yours seems a bit too eager though! I wouldn't want the thing to start up every time I get home as it turns the projector on, which lowers the projector screen, which blocks the (small) apartment's main entrance when lowered and would make me enter home on my fours ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

On the other hand if you re-arranged the room, it'd be neat to walk in to everything deploying!

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

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Post by monster_truck » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 5:27 AM UTC

shiftpgdn wrote: post #97

monster_truck wrote: post #11

You are _not_ getting one of these for less than $300, and because of this post and many like it, there are countless scams selling just cases for them at this price from a dollar or two of filament.

How is it a scam to sell something for more than the cost to make it? Labor and energy are not free you know.

I've got a bridge to sell you

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

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Post by nullify88 » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 6:02 AM UTC

ThatPlayer wrote: post #86

nullify88 wrote: post #72

I have a bunch of these as headless gaming PCs in a rack running sunshine and Steam on Linux. The kids stream from them using moonlight on whatever smart device they want to play on. Had the idea from LTT but he went a bit bonkers and bought expensive hardware to transmit video and input over cables. Gigabit Ethernet is more than enough.

Is that just with software encoding? Or did hardware encoding get fixed?

We are able to make do with Software Encoding for now, more so with the unlocked cores but it is limiting its potential. There seems to be something called PyroWave making waves for being a low latency encoder/ decoder but nothing supports it yet except for a now pulled Steam Beta.

Otherwise I'll have to investigate capturing video via the DP port or switch it out altogether.

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

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Post by byako » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 6:17 AM UTC

the silicon lottery in reverse: ps5 chips that failed console binning now power cyberpunk 2077 rigs for ~$70. best e-waste redemption arc in a while.

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

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Post by protoman3000 » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 9:21 AM UTC

addandsubtract wrote: post #31

There's a similar board called the AMD 4800S (or 4700S). These are also repurposed PS5 SoC that didn't pass the graphics quality control. So what you get is a motherboard with CPU and 16GB RAM soldered on. No HDMI out, but it has a 16x PCIe slot (PCIe 4x 4.0) to connect a graphics card. The 4700S model is limited to 4x PCIe 2.0.

I checked it out and total cost is too high compared to what you get in modern Mini PCs. Also, the 4800S is difficult to get and 4700S supports only SATA SSDs.

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

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Post by sehw » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 9:44 AM UTC

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

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Post by jorvi » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 10:08 AM UTC

sanex wrote: post #90

jorvi wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This always makes me ambivalent about enthusiast blog posts. Like on the one hand, cool that the knowledge gets spread. On the other hand, whenever one gets popular, another hidden gem skyrockets in price or becomes semi-permanently low in stock.

The invisible hand of the market finger-blasting our wallets again.

Haha yeah, I do realize that "hidden gems" are effectively arbitrage, where you are underpaying relative to the actual (market) value of the item.

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

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Post by Skiffssh » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

what kind of fps does it even give on AAA games like can it even run minecraft at a good fps and also i dont think it would cost this much less right now in 2026 after increase in ram prices

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

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Post by voidnap » Sun, Sep 06, 2026, 10:44 AM UTC

Skiffssh wrote: post #109

what kind of fps does it even give on AAA games like can it even run minecraft at a good fps and also i dont think it would cost this much less right now in 2026 after increase in ram prices

For some reason the article doesn't tell you the benchmark results, it just shows a screenshot.

It's 86 avg fps at 1920x800 (on medium?) but with upscaling on auto and frame generation. So who knows what the actual performance is like, since the render resolution even included in the results. And benchmarking with frame gen is a joke.