I upgraded my storage and ram on my PC so now I have these two extra components sitting around. I kind of want to build the tiniest PC I can. Where can I find some discussion for it?

Or what other things might they be used for that I wouldn’t even think of?

Thanks :)

  • @rufus@discuss.tchncs.de
    2•11 months ago

    I suppose you could fit it into an other old PC that still has some slots free. Lots of PCs have 4 memory banks and people only ever bought 2. Either give it to a friend or if you want to build a tiny PC, search for Mini-PC on Amazon and buy one that has the correct specs and space to fit RAM or go on eBay and buy an old Lenovo ThinkCentre, Fujitsu Esprimo or that form-factor from Dell or HP. But you have to check if it supports your RAM. There are many different generations of RAM, different specifications and some small PCs use laptop RAM which is smaller and uses a different voltage.

    It won’t be the tiniest PC, but a proper tiny PC probably has RAM soldered on anyways, like a Raspberry Pi Zero and there are even smaller “PCs”.

    All of that may not make any sense… Like buying hardware for $200 and then fitting it with RAM that is maybe worth $12.

    Edit: Yeah, it doesn’t make much sense. you can buy a tiny PC for like $170 on Amazon including 16GB of RAM and including a 512GB SSD.

    I think you either get something for free to fit this components into, or give it away to a friend or sell it for $20.

    • StarOP
      3•11 months ago

      Dang, look at that. I would spend way more that $170 fitting my own PC probably.

      Sucks that everything is so disposable these days.