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Ouch: The Raspberry Pi 5 just hit an eye-watering $385 (www.pcworld.com)
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[–] 25 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

I bought a Dell Optiplex at Goodwill for $20 that could probably run circles around that thing.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 days ago (4 children)

    And likely not that much more power usage

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  • [–] 8 points 5 days ago (3 children)

    It is after my upgrades.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

    I'm sure a lot more capable as well though.

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  • [–] 3 points 5 days ago (1 child)

    Yes. I upgraded the CPU to an i7-4790 and I upgraded the RAM to 16 GB. I also got some pcie sata cards and added a bunch of HDD's. The HDD's are mostly lower capacity ones I had laying around but it's cool. I installed Cachy OS on it and even got Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Fallen running on it. I don't have room for a dedicated GPU so modern games are out of the question. It was a fun project.

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