New sleeper / main rig swap incoming over the next few weeks.
This is my dad's Dell 3020.
He passed away last year (2024).
He always pushed me to explore, tinker, and repair. He loved that I had a borderline insane fascination with PC cooling and my drive to optimize temps.
He would want me to tinker and build something cool with this.
I've already done a few things to the chassis before I thought to start logging the project. I'll try to document the changes made already.
Valve have released SteamOS version 3.7 alongside its official ports they made for the ROG Ally and Legion Go handhelds.
I have installed SteamOS on my Ryzen 7 5000 series laptop. It was pretty smooth.
Bioshock remastered max graphics, no frame dips
Battery dies pretty fast while playing, probably needs better drivers.
Trackpad doesn't always pick up my mouse moving
But wifi and Bluetooth are working perfectly
FF7 rebirth is so far the only game where I had to change Proton version
Kept spitting out an error that my GPU didn't support dx12, which it does.
After some research I found that despite 7rb being Steam Deck certified that a lot of users have been getting that error ever since the game came out, so at least its not just me.
Was able to install Emudeck as well. Need to do some more testing with games but we're getting closer to having a viable Windows alternative for gaming finally!