Cheap $200 Skylake hack running Big Sur - Dell Optiplex 3040/7040

There are a bunch of Dell Optiplex systems available on ebay. You should be able to get a 3040 or 7040 with a Skylake i5-6500 for under $200. These systems are very easy to hack. You can get up and running with OC 0.6.3 and Big Sure in no time. If you can also snag an AMD RX 460 or RX 560, you'll be in very good shape with sleep, 4K, etc. I don't think the power supply can handle a more powerful GPU.

Some tips:

- Try to find a mini-tower, rather than a SFF, so you can fit the RX 560- The 7040 uses DDR4, the 3040 uses DDR3- With an RX 560, sleep works fine. I could not get sleep working with the iGPU.- If you don't care about sleep, you can definitely get your hack running for under $200

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Dell Optiplex 3040 with RX 560 running Big Sur

CPU: Intel i5-6500
GPU: AMD RX 560
RAM: 2x4GB DDR3
Motherboard/Laptop Make and Model: Dell Optiplex 3040 Mini Tower
Audio Codec: Realtek HDA Codec ALC3234 (on motherboard)
Ethernet Card: Realtek RTL8111HSD-CG (on motherboard)
BIOS revision: 1.12.3 (13 Jul 2020) - using default BIOS settings