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Acer Aspire XC Desktop (Refurb): Celeron J4125, 4GB RAM, 256GB SSD

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Acer via eBay has Acer Aspire XC Desktop (Refurbished, DT.BHFAA.001) for $87.99 (price reflected in cart). Shipping is free.

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Specs
  • Intel Celeron J4125 2.00 GHz Quad-Core Processor
  • 4GB RAM
  • 256GB Solid State Drive
  • Intel UHD Graphics 600
  • Includes Keyboard & Mouse
  • Windows 10 Home

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Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • About this item:
    • This price matches a recent Frontpage Deal.
    • This item is Certified Refurbished. It has been professionally restored by an Acer approved vendor. Units are usually cosmetically indistinguishable from New products, but some may show signs of light use. Functionally, these units are equivalent to New. Certified Refurbished units will be shipped in a New Brown Box.
    • See the forum thread for additional discussion from Slickdeals members about the best uses for this budget desktop.
    • Comes with a 2-year warranty from Allstate.
  • Returns:
    • Free 30 day returns. Seller pays for return shipping.

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Written by cgigate
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Acer via eBay has Acer Aspire XC Desktop (Refurbished, DT.BHFAA.001) for $87.99 (price reflected in cart). Shipping is free.

Thanks to community member cgigate and drjs for sharing this deal.

Note, must add to cart for the sale price.

Specs
  • Intel Celeron J4125 2.00 GHz Quad-Core Processor
  • 4GB RAM
  • 256GB Solid State Drive
  • Intel UHD Graphics 600
  • Includes Keyboard & Mouse
  • Windows 10 Home

Editor's Notes

Written by oceanlake | Staff
  • About this item:
    • This price matches a recent Frontpage Deal.
    • This item is Certified Refurbished. It has been professionally restored by an Acer approved vendor. Units are usually cosmetically indistinguishable from New products, but some may show signs of light use. Functionally, these units are equivalent to New. Certified Refurbished units will be shipped in a New Brown Box.
    • See the forum thread for additional discussion from Slickdeals members about the best uses for this budget desktop.
    • Comes with a 2-year warranty from Allstate.
  • Returns:
    • Free 30 day returns. Seller pays for return shipping.

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drjs
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Mine idle at 6W.
AquaGalley8616
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This 88 dollar PC is not a powerful PC. That is correct. I'm not being duped into thinking this is a POWERFUL PC!
This is a laptop PC who's motherboard has been placed in a tiny tower case and can run windows 10/11, and you can add more ram, and comes with NVMe, with external power supply that laptop's use! So very, very low power 24/7 machine 6 watts idle.
It has bluetooth/wifi,ethernet port, 4 usb 2 ports, 2 usb 3 ports. 2 year warranty, intel 600 internal graphics, hdmi and vga port,

You know that Walmart currently is selling this at 299 dollars with good user review average.

I object to the word "duped" in your post. There are 2-3 threads on this device on slickdeals , with things people are doing with it.

Like the Raspberry Pi, it is hobby device, and cheaper than Pi,( if you were to buy Pi plus all the extra's you need to buy to complete Pi package).

Hopefully, people read YOUR post, and read posts from others that discuss the positive aspect of this device, so they know what they are buying and not buying. Alert heard, sir. . Your mission is accomplished. Torpedoes away. Next target!
Pinako
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For those of you wanting to use this thing as a NAS, you're looking at three issues:

Where to mount the disks? As previously mentioned, there's space for a 3.5" disk and a 2.5" disk if you removed the optical drive. Alternatively, you could remove the entire cage and replace it with something that'd accept two 3.5" disks [amazon.com] (I haven't actually tried it because I haven't received the computer yet, but it should work). Similarly, it should not be too difficult to put four 2.5" disks in the case. Use a cage if you want to be fancy. Velcro or duct tape if you just don't gaf. Or get a bigger case, but then you'd lose the cute little form factor.

Where to get the power? Y-splitters. Just don't overload the power supply.

Where to connect the data cables? Ah, now this is the fun part. See previous post regarding the limitations of the PCIe bus. If the goal is to install as many disks as possible, one way would be to put SATA controllers in the ×16, ×4, and ×2 slots. Yes, the M-keyed M.2 slot and even the E-keyed M.2 slot could probably be used for PCIe modules, including SATA controllers and Ethernet controllers.

Each lane of PCIe 2.0 provides 500 MB/s of bandwidth, just barely sufficient for SATA III's 600 MB/s. This is obviously not a problem for HDD, but could limit SSD performance. You might want to be... creative... with port selection, if you plan to use SSDs and HDDs together. For example, if you put a 2-port SATA controller in the ×2 slot, you might want to pair an SSD with a HDD on that same controller to optimize bandwidth usage.

Also remember the limitations of the DMI link. If you're using this machine as a NAS, your disks might be sharing PCIe bandwidth with your NIC. You could potentially install many disks and a lot of other stuff, but they'd compete for bandwidth. Proceed with caution.

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K, ordered. I'm upgrading from a pi4 used as a plex server. The reported quietness and low power draw of the PC convinced me to do the switch.

I don't transcode so I use kodi with the PlexKodiConnect addon. You can make it look nice with the embuary skin.
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Has anyone gotten 2x16GB to run at normal speeds?
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Quote from JMBauer74 :
People getting duped into buying a dated Celeron (budget) PC. Great if you're into Minesweeper I suppose. These aren't even good for web browsing. If you open multiple browser winders, it will just bog the system down and make it run slower
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This 88 dollar PC is not a powerful PC. That is correct. I'm not being duped into thinking this is a POWERFUL PC!
This is a laptop PC who's motherboard has been placed in a tiny tower case and can run windows 10/11, and you can add more ram, and comes with NVMe, with external power supply that laptop's use! So very, very low power 24/7 machine 6 watts idle.
It has bluetooth/wifi,ethernet port, 4 usb 2 ports, 2 usb 3 ports. 2 year warranty, intel 600 internal graphics, hdmi and vga port,

You know that Walmart currently is selling this at 299 dollars with good user review average.

I object to the word "duped" in your post. There are 2-3 threads on this device on slickdeals , with things people are doing with it.

Like the Raspberry Pi, it is hobby device, and cheaper than Pi,( if you were to buy Pi plus all the extra's you need to buy to complete Pi package).

Hopefully, people read YOUR post, and read posts from others that discuss the positive aspect of this device, so they know what they are buying and not buying. Alert heard, sir. . Your mission is accomplished. Torpedoes away. Next target! Smilie
Last edited by AquaGalley8616 July 18, 2022 at 04:38 AM.
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Pinako
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Quote from FairWren6046 :
There seemed to at one point have links to all the things the OP installed in this system, all coming from amazon. I cannot find a page on this site where the links are working. Does OP or someone else have the time to link the hardware he added? TIA
You might be looking for the original post.
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geniv
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Quote from JMBauer74 :
People getting duped into buying a dated Celeron (budget) PC. Great if you're into Minesweeper I suppose. These aren't even good for web browsing. If you open multiple browser winders, it will just bog the system down and make it run slower.
You are the one being duped. I bet you believe what mfgs say that you need a 11 gen i7 and 1 gbps Internet to do web surfing and email.

Maybe be learn to use the uninstall feature of windows to remove bloatware?
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drjs
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Quote from JMBauer74 :
People getting duped into buying a dated Celeron (budget) PC. Great if you're into Minesweeper I suppose. These aren't even good for web browsing. If you open multiple browser winders, it will just bog the system down and make it run slower.
These are not the droids you are looking for.

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Quote from FairWren6046 :
There seemed to at one point have links to all the things the OP installed in this system, all coming from amazon. I cannot find a page on this site where the links are working. Does OP or someone else have the time to link the hardware he added? TIA
When I copied into the wiki, the link didn't copy. Information is on the old thread copied below:

*Added another 8Gig of memory [amazon.com]to make it 12Gig total
*spliced power so I can get 2 SATA power header [ebay.com]
*spliced fan header [ebay.com]and added an 140mm fan [amazon.com]
*added a WD 80TB Red plus
*added a DVD caddy 3.5 9.7mm bay [amazon.com].
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By saying "I can watch 4k ultra youtube nature videos at 1080p60 and it looks good", it's really misleading! It is really just playing 1080p not 4k as YouTube is just streaming 1080p or lower to your device.

For others, do not buy if your monitor is higher than 1080p. Don't get duped.
...how is this misleading. Generally 4k ultra nature and animal demo videos look fantastic at 1080p60 (the beautiful colors, and detail are great) . Those 4k demo videos are showcase videos because made so professionally, look great at 1080p60 on good hdtv.
I do own 40 inch led 4k hdtv, 65 inch 4k, and 50 inch 4k QLED hdtv's. And I own 1080p ISP laptops that makes those 4k nature/animal videos look great too.
How is this getting duped! If I said I watched 4k demo's in 4k 120hz on this 88 dollar pc and said it looked smooth and great that would be LIEING and duping people.
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Sometimes single application is all you need. Make it a pfSense box. Use it as a NAS. Or, yes, play Minesweeper -- you could easily get 60 FPS at max settings.
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Quote from AquaGalley8616 :
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...how is this misleading. Generally 4k ultra nature and animal demo videos look fantastic at 1080p60 (the beautiful colors, and detail are great) . Those 4k demo videos are showcase videos because made so professionally, look great at 1080p60 on good hdtv.
I do own 40 inch led 4k hdtv, 65 inch 4k, and 50 inch 4k QLED hdtv's. And I own 1080p ISP laptops that makes those 4k nature/animal videos look great too.
How is this getting duped! If I said I watched 4k demo's in 4k 120hz on this 88 dollar pc and said it looked smooth and great that would be LIEING and duping people.
Stop misleading ppl with your 4k dreams. This machine is not good for 4k and you are just afraid to admit it.
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Quote from eSocrates :
Could this thing run Wii/GameCube games 1080p through Dolphin and maintain a steady frame rate. I hooked up my Wii to test a moderately scratched copy of MK Wii I picked up today at goodwill and it got me thinking about this thing selling for $88 a couple days ago and what people had wrote in the previous threads about how efficient it is but still able to do some low end gaming. How cool would something like this be if it could be used as a dedicated High Def Wii thats quiet efficient and fits under a tv all for less than $100.

I love that I can play OG Xbox games in HD with my Xbox One S and I doubt Nintendo will ever do something as extensive for their own stuff. I've never used Dolphin but something like this that could run it makes me see the immense value to it.
The wiiu GameCube emulators out are pretty solid now and I would say this would run them just fine maybe possible add more ram if this thing is capable of it
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