Repurposed ASRock BC250 Hits 58.95 FPS in Cyberpunk for About $177
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Updated · Aftermath · Jun 26
Repurposed ASRock BC250 Hits 58.95 FPS in Cyberpunk for About $177
1 articles · Updated · Aftermath · Jun 26
Summary
58.95 fps at 1080p High in Cyberpunk came from a repurposed ASRock BC250 mining board after unlocked compute units, fan tuning and a 10GB/6GB memory split.
About $177 bought the used BC250 with a 128GB SSD, turning crypto e-waste into a budget Linux-only gaming PC as high RAM prices and weak mining economics pushed the boards onto the secondary market.
24 compute units ship enabled, but community tools can expose up to 40; a white paper cited in the report found 74% of tested units had all 40 available, and YouTuber ETA Prime reported gains of up to 28%.
Weeks of modding were required because the server-oriented board needs custom cooling, 3D-printed parts, a nonstandard PSU adapter and a BIOS flash, with no Windows GPU drivers available.
73.27 fps from Valve's Steam Machine still beat the BC250 at the same settings, but the report argues the hacked-together build delivers usable PS5-adjacent performance at roughly 15% of the newer system's cost.