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Wondering about refurbishing / reformatting some of my older boxes, got a twin set of them. They've been great for mining for nearly a year, holding two GPUs with sufficient clearance between them so that they don't overheat (I ran them open-air, in front of a window with a fan), but now I feel that it's time to put them out to pasture, and clean them up (they're a little dusty), put in some new, fresh, PSUs, take some of the GPUs out, and set them up with 8GB or 16GB of RAM. They have ASRock Z170 ATX boards, some of the first on the market. And last I knew, they could still BCLK OC a locked Skylake CPU, at least, an older one.
Edit: Or, instead of kind of "decking them out" as gaming rigs, (still with the G4560 2C/4T CPU, a little sluggish these days), maybe make them into minimalist "browser boxes"? Maybe 4GB DDR4, leave the used 240GB Kingston SSD (maybe Secure Erase them), activated Win10, take out ALL the GPUs, put in a minimalist PSU, or at least, one that would leave open the possibility of gaming in the future, as this is an ATX box, which isn't ideal size-wise for a browser box only. Part of the problem is, they are in Raidmax Cobra ATX gaming cases, that have a look on the front, "like a transformer", which would probably make an ideal gaming box for some HS kid somewhere.
Maybe in Jan., when I get some more money, get some of those Team Elite DDR4-2400 8GB sticks for $46.99 @ Newegg (currently sold out, for obvious reasons), either 1x or 2x per box, and then throw in the RX 570, and a 2TB WD Blue 5400RPM HDD ($60 worth), and sell them as entry-level Gaming PCs, USED. Maybe I could sell them. The CPU is kind of a weak point, though. It's more suitable for a browser-box. Maybe if I dropped $100 ea., on some i5-6400 Skylake locked quad-cores, and BLCK OCed them on the boards, to 4.0Ghz or higher, and put in 16GB of DDR4. (Genuine quad-core Skylake CPU, RX 570 4GB card, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 16GB RAM? Ok, it's used, but spec-wise, that beats some of the pre-built OEM "gaming" PCs, by a country mile.)
Edit: Wholly Smokes. i5-6400 USED on ebay, is like $200! For that price, I'd get an AM4 rig, with a 2600X and use that instead for a gaming box, and re-use the DDR4 and the RX 570 and SSD, although the Win10 license would be most likely tied to the Z170 mobo, oh well.
Hmm, i5-7600K is BNIB retail sealed from beachcamera on ebay for nearly $300. Would it be worth it to put those into the gaming PCs, before selling them? Would that make the final gaming PC worth $300 more than with a G4560 in it? I would probably think NOT, but maybe some might differ?
Edit: Or, instead of kind of "decking them out" as gaming rigs, (still with the G4560 2C/4T CPU, a little sluggish these days), maybe make them into minimalist "browser boxes"? Maybe 4GB DDR4, leave the used 240GB Kingston SSD (maybe Secure Erase them), activated Win10, take out ALL the GPUs, put in a minimalist PSU, or at least, one that would leave open the possibility of gaming in the future, as this is an ATX box, which isn't ideal size-wise for a browser box only. Part of the problem is, they are in Raidmax Cobra ATX gaming cases, that have a look on the front, "like a transformer", which would probably make an ideal gaming box for some HS kid somewhere.
Maybe in Jan., when I get some more money, get some of those Team Elite DDR4-2400 8GB sticks for $46.99 @ Newegg (currently sold out, for obvious reasons), either 1x or 2x per box, and then throw in the RX 570, and a 2TB WD Blue 5400RPM HDD ($60 worth), and sell them as entry-level Gaming PCs, USED. Maybe I could sell them. The CPU is kind of a weak point, though. It's more suitable for a browser-box. Maybe if I dropped $100 ea., on some i5-6400 Skylake locked quad-cores, and BLCK OCed them on the boards, to 4.0Ghz or higher, and put in 16GB of DDR4. (Genuine quad-core Skylake CPU, RX 570 4GB card, 240GB SSD, 2TB HDD, 16GB RAM? Ok, it's used, but spec-wise, that beats some of the pre-built OEM "gaming" PCs, by a country mile.)
Edit: Wholly Smokes. i5-6400 USED on ebay, is like $200! For that price, I'd get an AM4 rig, with a 2600X and use that instead for a gaming box, and re-use the DDR4 and the RX 570 and SSD, although the Win10 license would be most likely tied to the Z170 mobo, oh well.
Hmm, i5-7600K is BNIB retail sealed from beachcamera on ebay for nearly $300. Would it be worth it to put those into the gaming PCs, before selling them? Would that make the final gaming PC worth $300 more than with a G4560 in it? I would probably think NOT, but maybe some might differ?
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