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Building a mini game console/media system

#1 Post by ThinkPad560X » Mon Nov 06, 2023 12:38 pm

I am thinking of putting my desktops away, Not selling, but put away as I am done buying PCs and collecting them. Any PCs I have and if need the newest hardware then I will upgrade said PC and not buy any. I have many desktops ranging from tall towers to mid to mini and micro. All DELL, IBM/Lenovo and then my small Apple collection. Same for laptops. All ThinkPads from IBM/Lenovo and 3 Apple laptops. Right now making it less clutter and will fit in the living room with my PS5 or XBOX Series X depending on what is out. I have the Dell Inspiron Zino HD 400. It is a nice little compact Mini ITX PC from 2009. It is maxed with ram at 8GB DDR2, 2 x4 laptop ram. Not sure if it can handle 16GB but 8GB stick would be hard to find along with the high price just to test and figure out. Has a AMD Athlon II x2 1.80GHz supposedly can handle X3 or even X4. And then a built in AMD Radeon 3200 HD 256MB. 2TB HDD 3.5. I can play fallout 3 and New Vegas on it but with light lag. Probably the GPU. From what I seen the Dell Zino 410 and a swapable PGU like seen in a gaming laptop but the board is $70 and the GPU is $30+ I don't think there is a way to add a GPU to this other then through the built in WiFi slot. https://www.amazon.com/Mini-PCIe-Adapte ... 0299&psc=1

But I was thinking it would be better to just swap the board out for a Mini ITX board but not sure if they will fit and I would need a PSU 24pin or 24pin to barrel. I can make a custom I/O backplate as it is a plastic backplate.
IBM: 760XD,770Z,600X,240,560X,560Z,570,380Z,390X,i1200,i1400,
A22m,A22e,A30,G40,R31,R40,R50,R60,R61,R400,R500,
T20,T23,T30,T40,T43,T60,T61,T400,T400s,T500,W500,W700,
X21,X30,X41,X41T,X60,X60T,X200,X200T,X300,X120e,Z60m,Z61t
T410|T510 to T480|T580
L440|L450 to L480|L580
X220 - X280

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