Gav's World : Kids PC 1

Kids PC 1 [riker]

With the potential PC scrap pile from Windows 10 end of life, this PC was becoming risky for running windows. Luckily, there are alternative operating systems out there which are still very happy to run on older hardware. So, this came back under my roof after #1 son bought himself a more modern (and compatible with Windows 11) PC.

This PC, which was originally built from a lot of spare parts, got another spare part transplant: the best of the spare parts from my latest Desktop PC upgrade (namely, the better CPU and RAM). Plus an old SSD that I had gathering dust!

This all makes a 8 "core" (well, 4 cores and 8 threads) Piledriver running Xubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) which is more than capable of running Minecraft (and Steam too) with upgrade paths for when the need arises!

Specifications:

Case:	Aerocool QS182
Power Supply:	Generic 500W ATX PSU.
Motherboard:	ASUS M5A78L-M PLUS/USB3
Processor:	AMD Piledriver FX-8350 (4.0GHz; 4.2GHz boost)
CPU Heat-sink:	AMD Wraith
RAM:	Hyper-X Fury 16GiB Dual Channel DDR3 Kit HX318C10FRK2/16 (2 kits, 32GiBytes total, 10-11-10-30 timings)
Graphics Card:	MSI GT 1030 AERO ITX 2G OC (nVidia, GeForce GT 1030 2GiByte DDR4) Also integrated ATI Radeon HD3000
Storage:	OCZ Agility 3 (60GByte SATA III, SSD root file-system) Hitachi Travelstar 7K1000 (1TByte SATA, local filesystem)
Optical Drive:	LG GH22LS30 DVD RAM (with Light-scribe)
Bluetooth:	Sabrent BT-UB40 (v4.0 LE)
Monitor:	2x Dell S2421H (24 inch 16:9, 1920x1080 IPS panel)
Keyboard:	Logitech K270
Mouse:	Logitech M705