over the last couple of days i’ve been working on a project to make a custom living room steam machine build using an old PC that i no longer use. Its an HP Prebuilt PC called the “HP Elitedesk”.

inside its running a GT1030 (so i can’t currently install holoiso/chimeraOS, but windows booting into big picture mode has been working great so far), an Intel i7-4770 3.40GHz with 16gb of ram.

if i wanted to upgrade this thing to play a few more demanding games (RDR2, Elden ring, Horizon zero dawn) how should i go about it, and how much would it cost (canadian prices)?

I’ve been looking at getting an RX6400, as it’ll fit in my case and run those games decently well, (40-60fps from what i’ve seen, could be wrong)

I’ve never really done too much with the hardware side of computers besides just taking parts out and reseating and stuff like that. I’ve never actually built anything.

If any of you here have a similar build i would LOVE to know what you’ve done and how you think i can upgrade mine.

Thanks for reading all this haha.

  • User5281@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I crammed a mini itx x570 motherboard, 5800x3d and 6900xt into a fractal ridge case that sits under my tv and looks like a console. if you’re going to run steam on linux stick it’s easier to stick with AMD GPU.

    • Aidoneuz@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      What cooler are you using that can handle an x3D cpu and fit in a Ridge? Sounds like a sweet build!

      • User5281@alien.topBEnglish
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        1 year ago

        The go-to is the noctua nh-l12s but it’s not compatible with the gigabyte board I have so I’m using an nh-l9. Don’t remember if it’s a or I. It works adequately but if I were to do it over I’d get a motherboard that were compatible with the bigger cooler.