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Not that theres anything wrong with your setup, but if Ive not got a spare pc or laptop, Id rather get the new pi than risk cheap older hardware that might fail sooner than later if all its gonna do is basically play as a pi.
Plus, like. Pi's are cool. All compact and efficient. Adorable little motherboards.
Oh totally! But this ancient machine plays better video than my pi 4b 4GB (which now is my headless server.) Surprisingly, it DESTROYS the performance of a Pi 4b even though my Pi runs off a solid state drive too.
This ancient PC was my Grampa’s originally. I recommended a much cheaper machine for what he did. He told me “this is the last computer I’ll ever buy.” I told him to not be silly. He bought the Phenom x4 machine w/ video card anyway.
He was correct. I was given his machine because we did computer stuff together.
It lives on, though. It’s got a SSD now and more RAM, but it plays 1440p perfectly and runs 24/7… and has been running 24/7 for years. It used to also torrent, but the HDD died and my server RPi is gonna torrent too eventually.