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Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death by ixacto on Tuesday February 06, 2018 @11:47PM (#16322304)
This. I repurposed a dell t3500 with a xeon x5650 (https://ark.intel.com/products/47922/Intel-Xeon-Processor-X5...) GTX1060 6gb and samsung evo ssd, and the thing is still quite fast running ubuntu Mate and windows 10 LTSB.

The only real obstacle is the lack of NVME support. SATA3 is a bit of an upgrade bottleneck on these old systems, but even software development on this box was just fine with a fast ssd.

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Re:What I learned from watching my iPad's slow death by RachelF on Wednesday February 07, 2018 @01:19AM (#16322595)
You can get a PCIe card for NVME.

If you are lucky, your BIOS can boot from it.

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