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If you've not subscribed to our subscription service, Tom's Hardware Premium, we've collated every article that you've missed out on over the past seven days.Last month, hot off the BC-250's full 40 CU unlock patch, we thought the time was ripe and finally put together a BC-250 build of our own to see what all the fuss was about. In case you're out of the loop, the AMD BC-250 is a repurposed PS5 APU, designed for cryptocurrency mining. With mining firmly out of fashion, the chip has now found new life, thanks to community-made patches and fixes that get things up and running for gaming. After all, where else are you going to find 16GB of memory and a capable single-board computer for $200 (or thereabouts) in the current market?The experience of reading Jake's trials and tribulations feels like harkening back to the days when everything wasn't simply plug-and-play, and if you wanted the most out of your hardware, you were going to have to get a little bit uncomfortable and more intimately familiar with the nature of the silicon you're running. If you're interested in running one of your own BC-250 systems, you don't want to miss this fantastic (and lengthy) read, which features extensive benchmarks comparing the build to the Steam Machine, alongside performance results using different CU counts and OS images.Benchmarking AMD's BC-250, offering Steam Machine-like performance at half the price
