The "$60 Gaming PC" – AMD BC-250 (2025)
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Ok it’s not exactly $60 but you can get the board itself for that amount of money on eBay if you’re lucky, but on average the price is around $70-$100 (as of November 2025) which is still very cheap considering you can play Cyberpunk 2077 on this.
The BC-250 began life not as a gaming board, but as part of a crypto-mining rig.
The “trick” behind it: the BC-250 uses a cut-down version of the APU from a PlayStation 5 (PS5) — a repurposed SoC (system-on-chip). Specifically: many PS5 APUs that didn’t meet console spec (“binned” or “defective” for console use) got repurposed. Instead of being discarded, these chips were re-used for mining/higher-density hardware. The original deployment: there was a rack-mount mining “server” build from ASRock that used 12 BC-250 cards , targeted at miners — sold as a “barebone” 4U server chassis. As mainstream GPU mining lost favor, many BC-250 units started circulating second-hand — offering hardware enthusiasts an opportunity to experiment. “BC-250 is basically a Playstation 5 chip that didn’t make the cut, and was released as a crypto-mining board.”
From public teardowns, benchmarks, and community experiments, BC-250 hardware specs are roughly:
Performance benchmarks & real-world behavior
Here’s my real life Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmark: