AMD BC-250 mining board, a cut-down PS5 APU, becomes a ~$70 budget gaming PC

Hardware enthusiasts are turning the AMD BC-250, a crypto-mining board built around a repurposed PlayStation 5 APU, into budget gaming PCs. The boards sell for roughly $70 to $100 on eBay as of November 2025, and community tests report playable framerates in titles like Cyberpunk 2077, GTA V, Counter-Strike 2, and Hitman 3.

The BC-250 began as part of an ASRock rack-mount mining server that held 12 of the cards. The board uses a cut-down version of the PS5's APU: PS5 chips that failed console spec were binned and reused for mining hardware rather than discarded. As GPU mining lost favor, the units flooded the second-hand market.

The hardware pairs six Zen 2 cores (12 threads) with an RDNA 2 integrated GPU of 24 compute units, down from the full PS5's 36, plus 16 GB of shared GDDR6 memory. It has no standard RAM slots but includes DisplayPort, USB, Ethernet, an M.2 NVMe slot, and an 8-pin PCIe power header.

Setup is not plug-and-play. Buyers need BIOS tweaks, Linux driver configuration, and adequate cooling and power supplies. Early driver instability has improved with community patches and updated drivers.