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Is this basically the worst idea in the world, given the recent disclosure of Intel Gen7/7.5 iGPU vulnerabilties, and the mitigations of such (in Linux), that cuts performance in half, or worse.
I was toying with the idea of building some G3258 browser-boxes, for some people I know. If this iGPU exploit / vuln hadn't reared it's head, I might have used the iGPU, save that I want to have an HDMI output. (Have to check the board.)
I guess I can use a dGPU, I have some (precious few, at this point) passively-cooled DDR3-using GT630/730 (Kepler) cards.
Or I could buy some GT710 cards. (I do have some GT730 GDDR5 cards, have to track those down too, before I mis-place them semi-permanently.)
Maybe a really "low-end Gaming Box" with the GT730 2GB GDDR5 cards? Might be able to play GTA V @ 25FPS on Low, like, really low.
I find it interesting that ebay vendors are unloading these for a song. Woke up today and went to ebay, found "Seller Offers" with decent discounts, off of the already fairly-low prices of around $20... They really want to off-load these chips, way too many vulns these days.
For a browser-box, for your average "Grandma", how bad are the vulns affecting Haswell? Are all of them mitigated by Windows Patches, if these boards don't have BIOS patches? (They probably should, they are the "CSM" models, but I haven't checked, and Haswell is pretty old.) (They are Asus boards.)
I was toying with the idea of building some G3258 browser-boxes, for some people I know. If this iGPU exploit / vuln hadn't reared it's head, I might have used the iGPU, save that I want to have an HDMI output. (Have to check the board.)
I guess I can use a dGPU, I have some (precious few, at this point) passively-cooled DDR3-using GT630/730 (Kepler) cards.
Or I could buy some GT710 cards. (I do have some GT730 GDDR5 cards, have to track those down too, before I mis-place them semi-permanently.)
Maybe a really "low-end Gaming Box" with the GT730 2GB GDDR5 cards? Might be able to play GTA V @ 25FPS on Low, like, really low.
I find it interesting that ebay vendors are unloading these for a song. Woke up today and went to ebay, found "Seller Offers" with decent discounts, off of the already fairly-low prices of around $20... They really want to off-load these chips, way too many vulns these days.
For a browser-box, for your average "Grandma", how bad are the vulns affecting Haswell? Are all of them mitigated by Windows Patches, if these boards don't have BIOS patches? (They probably should, they are the "CSM" models, but I haven't checked, and Haswell is pretty old.) (They are Asus boards.)