In a case of a Sega Dreamcast, which has been forgotten, an extremely compact computer system was created with an up to 4.2 GHz six-core APU from the Renoir generation, the AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G (test) . The hardware selected with great care comes from, among others, ASRock, Intel, Noctua and Samsung.
With his reader's article “Dreamcast One – PC Project”, the community member “Temujin123” brings together what also belongs together in the next-gen from PlayStation 5 (test) and Xbox Series X/S (test): An APU from AMD in a game console.
The hardware used by the author consists of the following components:
CPU
AMD Ryzen 5 Pro 4650G
CPU cooler
Noctua NH-L9a-AM4
Mainboard
ASRock X300M-STX
RAM
2 × 8 GB Crucial Ballistix SO-DIMM DDR4-3200
Storage media
1 TB Samsung SSD 970 EVO
960 GB Corsair Force MP510
120 GB Samsung SSD 830
Other
Intel Dual Band Wireless-AC 8265NGW
Dreamcast One PC – Specifications
In addition, an old notebook served as a parts dispenser for the DVD burner built into the Case Mod in proper style. USB 2.0 and 3.0 were also implemented on the front or side of the “PC game console” as well as a status display by means of LEDs.
The starting point for the case mod was a discarded Sega Dreamcast, which has perished its “sad” existence in the basement of the ComputerBase reader for the last ten years. The author has already forged future plans for the Dreamcast PC and is thinking of new APUs of the Rembrandt type, which are expected to appear in 2022 and will replace Cezanne.
A Sega Dreamcast served as the basis …
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The basis was a Sega Dreamcast … How the first game console of the 128-bit era from the 6th generation of consoles, which appeared in November 1998, became a full-fledged desktop computer, the author described in detail in his reader's article and vividly documented it with many other pictures.
Reader's article: ” Dreamcast One – PC project “
by Temujin123, Community -Member
With a YouTube video about his case mod, “Temujin123” further enhances his project and thus the reader's article.
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Questions and suggestions as well as praise and criticism about the reader's article in the comments this message and in the forum are, as always, expressly desired.
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In the “From the Community” category, the editorial team is always focusing on interesting reader articles from the ComputerBase forum.
Finally, the following reader articles have a place on the home page secured:
Case Mod with copper from “minimii”
The 11 ° C basement MO-RA from “Youngtimer”
Quake in the benchmark in the retro forum by “kryzs”
The own 10-inch server built by “JustOne”
Curve Optimizer Guide for AMD Ryzen 5000 from “Verandry”
Alpenföhn Gletscherwasser in the reader test of “Falcony6886”
Arctic Liquid Freezer II 360 A-RGB in the reader test of “Falcony6886”
Ryzen controller for undervolting AMD APUs from “andi_sco”
The Huawei Mate 10 Pro as NAS with WebDAV and DynDNS from “Kettenhunt”
Realize your own Dreamcast online with the DreamPi from “merlin123”
With the Sega Play Saturn and Sega NetLink online by “merlin123”
Does a Pentium N3710 still make sense in 2021? by “andi_sco”
Optimizing Ryzen 5000 using Curve Optimizer by “Foxel”
GPU support from upHere in the reader test by “Darklordx”
In order to be able to report more often and more up-to-date on new developments and projects from the community in the future, the editors ask for information in the thread “From the community: Your information on interesting reader articles”.
The editors would like to thank community member “burnout150” for pointing this out.
The basis was a Sega Dreamcast … 
How the first game console of the 128-bit era from the 6th generation of consoles, which appeared in November 1998, became a full-fledged desktop computer, the author described in detail in his reader's article and vividly documented it with many other pictures.