( yes i know its called compute stick )
anyway a short review about gaming on that thing by green ham gaming https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8XFc8vBhLo
the compu stick's performance seems to swerve a lot and oddly enough it seems to choke most on morrowind of all things


next up is a 56 dollar all amd pc scrounged together from used parts and seeing how well this machine performs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sd7wj8yfy-0
and pc gaming on an ( extreme) budget is not impossible
you do need to know what you are doing and put some elbow grease into it

Not watched the videos. I hate video review, articles, since you can't skim read them and they tend to be full of filler.

On topic.

Sub £100 PC gaming. Not knowing what parts where scrounged in the second video its difficult to say.

I built an Cheap AMD system last year for child number 4. I think it cost about £150 and the only reused part was a HD. It uses on CPU graphics and plays most things they want to play quite nicely. Heck it even runs Rise of the Tomb raider... at 5 fps.

I tried to use a celeron NUC for basic gaming, it was limited. But at the time intel on board graphics where still laughable.

Personally I'll reuse stuff for as long as its operational.

I have gaming rig that cost me about £700 (last year), 1st child has my old rig from 3 years ago, 2nd child has her old rig (my previous gaming rig from 6 years ago) + new cheap midrange card.

Since both children's machines are based on scrounged parts, are they sub £100?

Also depreciation.
After 10 years of daily use the £250 eMachine laptop which was used for watching films has finally given up. at what point did that become a sub £100 device.

Their new ones are impressive. Just gotta wait for price drops. :D

The thing is, last time I heard intel had improved their onboard graphics (circa 2012) I gave them the benefit of the doubt and bought (and quickly returned) an intel based laptop.

The thing couldn't even manage WoW on lowest detail at 20fps. the replacement AMD machine at the same price ran at high detail at 30-40 fps.

intel have a long history of awful 3D graphic, and wouldn't reccomend them for budget on chip gaming.

Their Iris 580 Pro is great though (only on laptops/mobile). I can't wait for their next line of integrated graphics on desktops.

Haha nice.
Dat cooler job though. XD
At least it works.

I have so much spare parts around my house, I'll see if I could make some money out of them. :))

I did a purge about a year ago, and dumped 3 AGP based motherboards, old memory and CPU's.
Feel sad now, since I just saw an article about the first Radeon card.

I have some classics here, like a old AMD K6, a Gforce FX5200, a FX5500 and a 8500 GT, a good old Pentium 4, I think I still have one of the first Intel Dual Core somewhere, a first gen i3 and some other things.

At the same time I want to keep them and maybe assemble a retro PC, spending money hunting down old things is kinda "eh" sometimes.