From the "Idle Hands Are the Devil's Playthings" Dept...![](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/testgear/test-equipment-anonymous-(tea)-group-therapy-thread/?action=dlattach;attach=909316;image)
It's in there. ASUS Radeon HD 3870 in an otherwise bone-stock HP p7-1243 PC. Not bad, considering the stock PSU doesn't have a PCIe power tap... well, it didn't until
I carved one out of an old ATX power connector and hacked the PSU to put it in there. ![Evil >:D](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/evil.gif)
All 4 gigs of RAM now available, instead of 3.3. And streaming video is butter-smooth with none of those horrible APU-video blocky artifacts.
![](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=81471.0;attach=693399;image)
But... there were casualties. A couple mm off the tip of a thumb (just enough to bleed for the bitch
![Wink ;)](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/wink.gif)
) and now she tips the scales at a beefy US$40 (32" screen included). Oh, the horror.
![Laughing :-DD](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/smiley_laughing.gif)
But soon comes the real big ticket item... $17 for another 4GB of RAM off slAmazon...
![Scared :scared:](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/scared.gif)
Now that I have it watchable as a TV, I can move on to the next step in my plans for this little beast... to use as a test-bed for the various VPN services available here and see which are actually sufferably reliable to get my Hulu back.
![ThumbsUp :-+](https://www.eevblog.com/forum/Smileys/default/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif)
mnem
I think I hear an episode of The Expanse calling my name...