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Timestamps:
0:00 Not really a “thin” client
0:38 Sponsor – Ugreen
1:50 HP T740 Thin Client
3:20 Getting it opened up
4:39 The Potential
5:54 First Boot
7:00 Cinebench and Power Draw
8:12 Proxmox
9:24 PCIe Cards
10:45 VMs, LXC, Jellyfin and Transcoding
12:03 Using it as a desktop
12:55 Light Gaming
13:54 Emulation with Batocera
14:43 This thing is… odd.
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Got a t640 that was pretty beat up for 5$ a few months ago at one of those retailer returns store. Multiple ports damaged, removed those and it worked fine. But it still had Amazon's tinycorelinux build on it, assuming it was one of their automated warehouse shipment computers. Not sure if it was decommissioned or damaged on accident and thrown into the returns lot. Was surprised these type of thin clients can be upgraded, wish mine was not a passively cooled one though!
Rest easy tteck
I still play winXp games with my T610plus ti this day.
12:22 it's 2024 how do you not own a 4k display? Do you watch TV? I get the 1440p monitor choice, but no TV is strange 🤔.
That's funny, I once got a Ethernet card to Work in a pcie wifi only slot by just soldering two pins together…. But it sounds like this ain't something usually done?
U should put a gpu in it
I think amds are bad at achieving low power c states.
you should buy an asus chromebox 3 cn65 and do some stuff with it, linux and whatnot, i put windos 11 on mine (sound drivers come from lenovo)…theyre nice for cheap
You should try out Bazzite on this thing, with Emudeck. Might get some benefits from using community configs in emulation, too.
The Dell Inspiron Zino was the first decent mini PC I ever had, I still have it today, it has an AMD Phenon X6 processor, 8GB of DDR3 RAM, and an offboard laptop video card that allows upgrades (originally a crappy Radeon 4330 or something like that). I easily upgraded it to a HD 5570, I could have chosen a better card, since it is MXM 3.0b which is used even in RTX, but I preferred not to mess too much with the TDP and balanced power consumption of the motherboard. I added a laptop cooler blowing air over the video card heatsink and I get great temperatures. It is my retro Windows Vista/7 system.
Nowadays it is infinitely easier to get a nice and small computer, but anything before 2015 was simply luck. I love collecting decent compact systems (by decent I mean none of that atom crap and crappy integrated graphics), but they are rare and expensive. The biggest mini system I have is the Dell GX280, a pentium 4 775 with a pci express slot in a USFF case. The smallest retro I believe is the Sony Vaio UX380n. That despite having a processor bordering on pathetic and an Intel 945 video card, I take into consideration its tiny motherboard size, and how Sony managed to fit all that in there.
track mania works good fun crazy online game
i use the elite desk 2400g or 3400g its about the same size AND SAME COST 100 or less depending.all this talk about power is beyond me 20 wattz or 50 not an issue .carbon is not bad lol oh man
Guess you could get better results with some GT1030 as nVidia usually goes better with emulators even though you're "downgrading" in terms of (i)GPU power. Your leftover TDP package could eliminate CPU-bottleneck scenario, and 90 watts could be just about enough for it.
The high power consumption will also make the fan noisier and shorter-lived.
I think this unit is good for who need to install PCI-E card. in my case my precious sound card.. ok
This thing is surprisingly functional, packs a lot of power (that cpu is about equal to i7 6700 in synthetic tests while being newer) and is still fairly small. Why don't we see more like these?
It’s not my Dad’s Acorn RISC PC, just a PC so no ARM under the heat sink
These cost like $1800 in Australia ($900 USD) lol
time to move over my rtx 3050 low profile
Can it run Crysis tho?
Aw, man… that proprietary power adapter is a deal breaker.
Just ordered one to use as a Router with OPNSense. Sticking a Intel X550-T2 into it to handle the network side of things. Can't wait to get into it and see what it can do
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Which mini pc uses desktop Ryzen cpu's? (You showed it for a second) I've watched 6 or 7 of your videos trying to find it.
RIP tteck. Your work was invaluable in my learning journey. You will be missed.
The price of NEW mini-pc is sooooo cheap? I don't understand this? After memory and storage this is too close to new price?
I almost bought one to run as a beefy router, but now I'm having second thoughts thanks to the power draw findings. Can anyone suggest a similar system that can take a quad 2.5GbE PCIe card and run OpenWRT? Is it the Wise 5070?
Хороший компьютер в качестве сервера приложений. Поставить RHEL + PostgreSQL + Redis + NGINX + Python + NodeJS
I would love a benchmark with the right power supply and a low profile GPU like the Quadro T1000, pretty please! 🥺
Over 16 minutes of talking and not a single mentioning that this is a ZEN1 first generation CPU.
The reason the intel gpu didn't work is probably because you are not running the latest version of proxomx, the 8.2 or 8.3 have a more recent kernel.
this is the video where i become a Member
thinclient? i hear thin gaming pc out of it, need only a hdplex psu and a tiny gpu 😀
Got one of these in 2022 after watching the Serve The Home review, but mine came with a BIOS that was permanently locked by the organization that previously owned it(nothing I tried would reset it), so was practically useless for homelabing.
Is there space for a 2.5 inch sata drive?
Anyone know what's that game with ships in the video?
Rip TTech 🙏
Pretty neat system
I've been using one of these units for almost a year now. It runs proxmox with several VMS and lxc containers. I installed a 4-port gigabit nic in it for use with a virtualized instance of pfSense. I also installed a 2 TB nvme drive to service my small samba share. Yes, I wish you drew a little less power, but it draws far less power then the Dell t610 II server that I was using before. I love it though.
The moment you said it won't support Freebsd, I no longer care😂. If I can't turn Linux, haiku OS or Freebsd I'm not interested.
It's a flop, because it's contains the RX Flop series/Flop VII graphics, failed to beat the Titan V/RTX at all.
I still use my t640 daily – passively cooled 12W