From the "Idle Hands Are the Devil's Playthings" Dept...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. 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.
But... there were casualties. A couple mm off the tip of a thumb (just enough to bleed for the bitch
) and now she tips the scales at a beefy US$40 (32" screen included). Oh, the horror.
But soon comes the real big ticket item... $17 for another 4GB of RAM off slAmazon...
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.
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I think I hear an episode of The Expanse calling my name...