I killed *3* computers and got another

It’s a very small HP EliteDesk 600 G5 mini. I put wifi and another SSD in it to round it off. I just killed 2 old EliteDesk 800 SFF in the past month. So I bought this so I’d have something to run Windows 11.

Those new tiny wifi cards are insane, way too hard to connect the antennas with my big hands anyway. But I got it eventually. The old ones were a reasonable size, these are not much bigger than the wire.

This computer has an i5 9500T and 16 GB of RAM which is fine for my uses, and an Intel UHD 630 so my recordings are going to be a little choppy because I don’t have a good GPU except one that gives me OCD but maybe recording would be better on my NVIDIA GT 1030 not sure. It also has 2 512 GB SSDs and Intel ax200 wifi/bluetooth.

EDIT: It was 3 computers that broke in one way or another and I stripped for parts.

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2 responses to “I killed *3* computers and got another”

  1. tremblin Avatar
    tremblin

    I stripped the 2 killed computers for parts, and one of them had a PCIe wifi card which is where I got the wifi chip and antennas. I just needed to buy the wires for $10 and the SSD.

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    tremblin

    It’s some weird Frankenstein between a ProDesk 600 G5 Mini and an EliteDesk 800 G5 Mini… some parts suggest either one, with the faceplate being “EliteDesk”. The BIOSes for both are indentical so they’re very similar anyway, so not sure what to call it.

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