BitWrangler wrote on Yesterday, 22:53:

Ozzuneoj wrote on Yesterday, 20:13:

BitWrangler wrote on Yesterday, 18:19:

Woohoo, think this is first yard sale computer part of the year. Cost next to nothing so I didn't expect much, bundled in AS bubble wrap. Thought it was gonna be some R5 200 or worse... actually turns out to be an HP 1030GT , which is kinda useful still. Will maybe go in a LP (not the tiny) 1155.

Nice! Is it a GDDR4 or GDDR5 model? There can be a pretty big performance difference between the two, though if it isn't really being used for gaming it won't matter much.

Very little ID on it apart from HP PN LO1825-001 ... and the HP resellers list it, but only as part number and bare minimum details, like GT1030 PCIe 2GB and that's all you get. There's a number advertised on eBay claiming GDDR5 and in shitty looking part stores, but no real definitive source. TechPU seems to use same photo for both versions which is unhelpful. Just gonna go see if GPUzoo lists it..

Edit: ugh, passmark data is a mess, they didn't distinguish between pascal, kepler and GDDR5 and DDR4 so there's 3 peaks on the graph and the average is way back from GDDR5 card scores it looks like.

Is it one of these?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/374975407018
If so, it's a super tiny card so may have reduced clocks (or just run hot), but... amazingly... it does seem to be a GDDR5 model. This Zotac uses basically the same PCB design and says GDDR5 on it:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/318534445838?chn=ps& … ction=view_item

So yeah, not a bad little card! With GDDR5 it is somewhere roughly in the realm of GTX 750 to GTX 750 Ti performance. No XP support though, since it is a Pascal GPU.

Yeah it's that one. Looking fairly certain it's GDDR5, woot. Apparently you can kick some of these up another 20% too, make a real CS:GO pwnage monster 🤣

Bought a Lenovo ThinkPad E570 Type 20H5 at e-waste for NT$1000 (US$30.85). The battery was empty but it had 8GBx2 DDR4 and an unmarked SSD; even with the worst scenario that the MB is completely dead, the two SO-DIMM DDR4 should cover the cost with surplus.

So I bought a Lenovo "Slim Tip" power connector for NT$130 on my way home, plugged it into my universal power brick, and voilà! The system powered on and entered Windows 10 desktop WITH NO PASSWORD PROTECTION. The SSD is a Toshiba 256GB TLC; in addition to built-in Intel HD Graphics 620 in i7-7500U, it also came with a GTX950M (roughly equivalent to a desktop GTX650Ti) with 2GB standalone video memory. And the removable battery still has 85% health after charging.

I wondered just how many working computers ended up in landfills when they could be provided freely or cheaply to elderly, young children, or people with low income (sigh).

dormcat wrote on Today, 08:38:

Bought a Lenovo ThinkPad E570 Type 20H5 at e-waste for NT$1000 (US$30.85). The battery was empty but it had 8GBx2 DDR4 and an unmarked SSD; even with the worst scenario that the MB is completely dead, the two SO-DIMM DDR4 should cover the cost with surplus.

So I bought a Lenovo "Slim Tip" power connector for NT$130 on my way home, plugged it into my universal power brick, and voilà! The system powered on and entered Windows 10 desktop WITH NO PASSWORD PROTECTION. The SSD is a Toshiba 256GB TLC; in addition to built-in Intel HD Graphics 620 in i7-7500U, it also came with a GTX950M (roughly equivalent to a desktop GTX650Ti) with 2GB standalone video memory. And the removable battery still has 85% health after charging.

I wondered just how many working computers ended up in landfills when they could be provided freely or cheaply to elderly, young children, or people with low income (sigh).

Congrats, that's a nice score. I paid around the same the other week to slingshot a Thinkpad out of the ewaste stream, from an org I know a tech at, to a pair of highschool kids in the fam, I wasn't quite sure what the specs would be but knew it was less than 5 years old. Turned out to have 16Gb ddr4, 512GB SSD and an 11th gen i7, only Iris XE graphics, but they are not totally horrible. What's crazy is machines like yours and this one are still sold by major chains refurbed at 500-1500 USD. Got nice new ryzen machines for my wife and I last year, paid a decent amount to get some years out of them... and it seemed like genius when RAM /storage crunch hit and the prices of equivalents doubled, but still if we'd been able to get basically "thrown away" machines of this caliber at the time, we'd have been happy to get them instead. Even of they just last a year, the dollars per year is great, they'd maybe bog down on bloat a couple of years ahead of the ones we did get, but still probably fine for 3 years.

I think it's somewhat to do with the accelerated asset depreciation of computing equipment, and to balance the books and not have to restate annual reports, corps have to act like the machines are worth nothing at 5 years old. ... because they've already taken the tax deduction. This probably seemed to make more sense when trying to get rid of late 486/early pentium in bulk in the early Ghz era, (free to $5 was a typical 486 system price then) But periods of utility have stretched out a bit. I'm typing this on a 13 year old Latitude. Equivalent of trying to post from a 286 in the year 2000. (and only be a couple of OS major revisions behind, so the 286 would be trying to run Win95 🤣 )