Smallest/cheapest workstation EVER

[Frank_Art]

Hello  I put together a low budget workstation for concept artist (2d preproduction digital artist), and I'm gonna use it soon to challenge some professional mates that have huge powerful rigs \m/

Components:

-Pi 4B/ 8gb , OC cpu 2Ghz gpu 750

-Ice tower cooler, no thermal pads, yes thermal paste !!

OS:

-Raspberri Pi OS 64

Softwear Installed:

- Blender 2.79b

- Gimp

Additional hardware I found around:

- Wacom intuos pro medium.

- Monitor ASUS art bla bla bla

- Keyboard Logitec G910 (cost more then the Pi4b^^)

- Mouse Logitec G5

(I use those components I had around on my garage, very easy to replace them with other cheaper components you can find second hand)

Everything run smooth and the system is stable. The temperature even if cpu and gpu are OC thanks to the ICE tower cooler and the use of thermal paste instead of the pads are low even under "heavy workload" (never above 45C). Gimp is very snappy and the brushes pressure sensitivity work very well. Blender work just fine as a support for your 2d art and run perfectly for learning proposes (beginner). This can be the ideal solution for many parents that see some kind of interest on visual art on their kids or for people that have very limited budget.

[eeeee1]

interesting!

[Finners]

I like it, love the ice tower cooler mostly.