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A reliable workhorse is a fine thing. For years, an aging desktop drudge performed faithful service for daily internet browsing, small administrative tasks, and the occasional compilation of ports under OpenBSD. It is an HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF (manufactured around 2012).

The old companion: HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF
The HP Compaq Pro 6300 SFF was a typical business workhorse PC around 2012. Equipped with an Intel Core i5-3470 (Ivy Bridge, 4 cores, 3.20 GHz) and 32 GB of DDR3 RAM, it continued to perform its duties without complaint even after more than a decade, though naturally, it excelled neither in energy efficiency nor in noise generation.

Here is the complete kernel log (dmesg) of the old HP system for reference:

]]> OpenBSDGeekomHardwareBenchmarkMiniPC #OpenBSD #Geekom #Hardware #Benchmark #MiniPC A field report on migrating from an aging HP Compaq 6300 desktop to a fanless Geekom IX12 Mini-PC running OpenBSD, including benchmark comparisons during compilation. https://buzzdeee.reitenba.ch/images/hp_vs_geekom.jpg