Acer via eBay has
Acer Aspire XC Desktop (Certified Refurbished, XC-1660G-UW92 / DT.BH7AA.
003) on sale for
$202.39 after automatic
Extra 12% Off discount applied at checkout (price shown in cart).
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Acer via eBay has
Acer Aspire XC Desktop (Certified Refurbished, XC-1660G-UW92 / DT.BH7AA.
001) on sale for
$202.39 after automatic
Extra 12% Off discount applied at checkout (price shown in cart).
Shipping is free.
Thanks to community member
BabyBubba for finding this deal.
Condition:- 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
Specs (
source):
- 10th Gen Intel Core i3-10105 4-Core / 8-Thread 3.70 GHz (4.4 GHz Turbo) 14nm 65W Processor
- 8GB (1x 8GB) DDR4-SDRAM (two DIMM slots total / max. 32GB supported)
- 256GB PCIe Solid State Drive
- Intel UHD Graphics 630
- 802.11ax WiFi 6 | Bluetooth 5.0
- Optical Drive Type: DVD-RW Optical Drive
- Windows 10 Home 64-Bit
- 300W Power Supply
- Includes USB wired keyboard & mouse
- Ports:
- 4x USB 2.0 Type A
- 2x USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type A
- 1x USB 3.2 Gen 2 Type C
- 2x HDMI
- 1x Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mbps)
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Your deal will show up sooner than later. I recently picked up a Dell 3040 SFF ready to go for $60 shipped, and it's a wonderful little machine. Looks brand new as well. And has native 4K HDMI output for my 4K monitor. Good times.
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Note, it is NOT a direct bolt up replacement. I designed and 3D printed a fan adapter to go from the 71.5mm stock fan bolt spacing to the larger shroud on the Noctua and 82.5mm bolt spacing. The Noctua is a massive upgrade. No more vibration and no more noise. It is smooth and dead silent and runs much less than teh stock fan. When it does run it cools CPU temps FAST.
If anyone has a 3D printer and is interested in this conversion, I can post up the files on printables and share the details.
Edit: Below printables link I uploaded the files for my 3D printed adapter to replace the stock CPU fan with a Noctua NF-A9 PWM.
https://www.printables.
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Hoping it has 3, want to build a small NAS system. Would use the M.2 as boot disk.
Hoping it has 3, want to build a small NAS system. Would use the M.2 as boot disk.
My i5 machine had a single power cable on the ports for Detail 6 to run the CD drive and that power cable had a spare power connector on it. If your i3 machine doesn't come with that cable or you want to buy another cable for the spare power connector, you can get them from ebay below. I bought this exact one and it's running the 2nd SATA power port perfectly. Make an offer of $18 shipped and the seller accepted it. That cable has 2 power connectors so the one plug on the board and power two drives. You will also need SATA data cables, as none come with this machine for those open data ports.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133108552528
You can also buy adapters to run more drives or another M2 drive off the PCIE 16X slot on the bottom of the board. I'm running a low profile GPU for CAD work and it's been excellent.
The AMD Radeon RX 6400 takes advantage of the PCIE gen 4 slot in the i5 machine, but I believe this i3 machine is PCIE gen 3, so any of the 1650s below will be solid choices as well.
I used an Nvidia Quadro T600 in mine for CAD work and transcoding. It's comparable in gaming performance to the 1050Ti and I have been very happy with it as a "do everything" card with Solidworks as the priority on use case.
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Most likely I would use external USB drives. Not sure if Plex is smart enough to know a USB drive has been swapped, if it does - fantastic, if not, I need a large external drive. Haven't explored Plex yet.
Again, thanks for all your help.
Congrats on your Plex Pass! It's definitely worth it. I first started using plex nearly a decade ago to make it easy for my daughter to get up and put on her favorite Disney movies early on a Saturday morning without me having to get out of bed and help her (Dad preferred to sleep in past 6:30 on the weekend). I eventually bought a plex pass more on principle to support them.
I dropped cable in the fall of 2020 when the Big Ten first cancelled their football season. I dug up an old OTA hauppauge tuner card (circa 2007) that worked out well with Plex. Your Silicon Dust hardware should work with Plex with zero issues.
My main plex server is only a Phenom II 955, which probably scores under 3000 in passmark. While it can transcode a 1080p stream no problem, it never really has to as I direct stream to my local devices, nvidia shield and Roku devices and their codec support is solid obviously. I did recently add nvidia quadro P400s to my plex servers though for the rare instance I want to remotely stream my library (thank you Comcast and your generous 5 Mbit upstream limit).
If your a linux guy at all, I'd recommend that route (both my Plex servers run Debian based distros). I've thrown together plex servers on old hardware (Core 2 or Athlon 64 X2) and thrown Ubuntu server on them for (non techy) family members. They just sit in a corner of say a basement and run for years serving up local content without issue.
Congrats, good luck, and have fun configuring your new toy!
Cheers!
I've had mine for a week and it's an excellent little work station for my needs.
I ended up buying a refurb Acer Aspire with an i5 11400 and 8gb ddr4 ram for $300. the processor upgrade was worth it, as the machine is going to handle 8 security cams with deepstack AI.
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Congrats on your Plex Pass! It's definitely worth it. I first started using plex nearly a decade ago to make it easy for my daughter to get up and put on her favorite Disney movies early on a Saturday morning without me having to get out of bed and help her (Dad preferred to sleep in past 6:30 on the weekend). I eventually bought a plex pass more on principle to support them.
I dropped cable in the fall of 2020 when the Big Ten first cancelled their football season. I dug up an old OTA hauppauge tuner card (circa 2007) that worked out well with Plex. Your Silicon Dust hardware should work with Plex with zero issues.
My main plex server is only a Phenom II 955, which probably scores under 3000 in passmark. While it can transcode a 1080p stream no problem, it never really has to as I direct stream to my local devices, nvidia shield and Roku devices and their codec support is solid obviously. I did recently add nvidia quadro P400s to my plex servers though for the rare instance I want to remotely stream my library (thank you Comcast and your generous 5 Mbit upstream limit).
If your a linux guy at all, I'd recommend that route (both my Plex servers run Debian based distros). I've thrown together plex servers on old hardware (Core 2 or Athlon 64 X2) and thrown Ubuntu server on them for (non techy) family members. They just sit in a corner of say a basement and run for years serving up local content without issue.
Congrats, good luck, and have fun configuring your new toy!
Cheers!
So now I have lots of great information on what to do to set this up. So many people responded. I just need to think about adding another memory stick, if it would help me.
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