JEMC said:
It happens to all of us. Another possible use of those IGPs could be to make a Retro PC. For example you could build a machine to play win95-to-XP games, something that newer Windows can't do without lots of troubles, using something like an A10-7860K APU thanks to a powerful enough IGP (512 shaders @ 757MHz) that should be able to run most if not all those old games. That APU plus a micro-ATX, 4 GB of DDR3, a regular 500GB HDD, case, PSU and a WinXP license (probably the hardest thing to find), and you can have a retro PC for less than a Vega 56/GTX 1070 cost. |
I was thinking of buying a cheap HTPC for the living room.
Maybe looking out for the Raven Bridge APU for a small build. Though DDR4 prices are silly expensive at the moment. Failing that, maybe I should look into older platforms (AM3)? As I already have a spare pair of DDR3 ram put away.
