Why did I buy another one?

"Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing." (granfury) 10/02/2019 at 23:02 • Filed to: None

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Found it at the Goodwill Outlet and seems to work fine. It’s a little scratched up but cost less than $10. I already have a slim unit, so I guess I can move this one upstairs to use as a media player/BD player. Unfortunately it’s not one of the PS2 compatible models, but given the price I can’t complain.

wafflesnfalafel > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/02/2019 at 23:35

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U se them for the processing power or just play them?  My FIL had several hooked up working on some MIT number crunching project for a while just for funsies - donating the processing power at night or something like that...

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/02/2019 at 23:36

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Make some kind of shock-insulated case for it with a used integrated monitor and power source/battery and you can play games inna woods

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) 10/03/2019 at 00:02

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Hell no - too many bugs out there. I don’t like bugs.

Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. > wafflesnfalafel 10/03/2019 at 00:04

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Just a media player probably. It was a bitch to get YouTube installed and updated, but that’s working so I’m happy. I’ll have to grab a disc and try that, but so far everything I’ve tried on the network seems OK, and it makes a nice player for my Plex server.

MKULTRA1982(ConCrustyBrick) > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/03/2019 at 00:29

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Inna public transit then? 

jimz > wafflesnfalafel 10/03/2019 at 07:05

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It’s kind of amazing what a misfire the Cell was as a console CPU, even if it did have some other strengths.

Long_Voyager, Now With More Caravanny Goodness > Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing. 10/03/2019 at 07:11

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As the person searching for a good PS3, you’re a dick.

As a fellow Oppo, Nice Find Man, Enjoy!

Snuze: Needs another Swede > wafflesnfalafel 10/03/2019 at 08:59

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There was a time when groups were snatching up XBoxes and PS’s to use in distributed computing projects because they provided a one of the best values in terms of computing horsepower vs. price and thermal power. In fact I recall reading somewhere that the Iranians had a farm of PS2s or 3s doing the heavy lifting for their nuclear program.  

facw > Snuze: Needs another Swede 10/03/2019 at 13:47

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The Air Force Research Lab (their Rome, NY location IIRC) had a 1760 PS3 computing cluster, providing some serious bang for buck processing power.

I think the PS3 as cheap processing power went down the drain when Sony got rid of the ability to run Linux on them though. It’s quite possible that anger at people buying them for stuff other than running games was part of the reason for that choice, though I think piracy potential was the biggest concern.