My New Mini PC

2026-07-09

I recently bought a new PC, a HP mini PC called the HP ProDesk 600 G1 DM. It's a USFF PC, about 1L volume, with a i3-4160T and 8GB RAM. It only cost around £40 from eBay, and included the PSU (which a lot of used office PC don't).

I used a 500GB SATA SSD which I already owned for the boot drive, and installed Debian 13. Files were all copied over from the Pi 3B+ and everything worked as expected, with a few minor dotfiles changes.

Happy with it so far. Cleaned it out with isopropyl alcohol when I first got it, although it was quite clean, likely only been in an office environment. The only annoying thing so far is the fan, it's a bit whiny, although this is somewhwat alleviated by standing the PC on something soft (right now it's sat on an old jotter) to stop it vibrating through my desk.

Benchmarks

Passmark CPU: 3467/1899 multi/single threaded
glmark2 (800x600): 627

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