Hardware question

Siimazou · January 14, 2018 at 7:41 AM

Hi there.

I want to upcycle some of my old hardware to use it with Librelec and want to know if it has enough power for regular usage:

Asrock 880GMH-USB3 with an underclocked and undervolted AMD PHENOM II X4 955 running @2.2GHz. 8GB of RAM and the OS on an 60GB SSD.

To keep the cost low I want to use the onboard garphics of the mainboard.

Would this setup work?

ymmvic · January 14, 2018 at 8:53 AM

Just try to install Libreelec, it takes 5 min, connect it to TV and test.

8gb ram is an overkill for sure!

(old Intel Core2Duo 1.6GHz with 1Gb RAM works perfectly!)

Siimazou · January 14, 2018 at 9:09 AM

So it might be enough to use say 2GB of RAM which i also have on hand? Because the integrated GPU already uses 512MB of RAM as GRAM.

1.5GB would be enough?

**chewitt** · January 14, 2018 at 9:18 AM Official Post

1.5GB should be fine

Siimazou · January 14, 2018 at 9:21 AM

I'm asking all of this questions because i don't want to spend money on a case when it's not sure whether this system will run probably or not.

**chewitt** · January 14, 2018 at 12:01 PM Official Post

LE runs fine (slowly, but fine) on RPi1 devices with 512MB RAM.

Siimazou · January 14, 2018 at 12:38 PM

Sure...

But isn't it a large difference comparing an ARM device with an usual desktop CPU?

**chewitt** · January 14, 2018 at 4:04 PM Official Post

Do I have to answer the question again? At what point do you get off the fence and believe the answer?

Siimazou · January 14, 2018 at 4:10 PM

Believing is not knowing

But ok I think nothing is wrong with the setup idea.

So I might get myself a case and then ready to go

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