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11 months agoI have bazzite running on an HP EliteDesk 705 G5 mini PC with a 3400G in it that I got used from eBay for pretty cheap, a little over $100. It handles 1440p 120Hz, it’s max output resolution at 120Hz, and 4k 60Hz just fine with steam remote play from my desktop on LAN. It also does up to GameCube emulation really well if you’re into that kind of thing. I’d really only consider upgrading from this if I wanted 4K 120Hz in the future, or if HDR becomes worth it, but the 1440p 120Hz experience is great.
Ive been playing around with these Alchitry boards. The IDE they’ve made for them is a little funky looking but you can make bit files with standard tools like Vivado and just use their tools to flash them. https://shop.alchitry.com/collections/products
The Digilent Arty boards aren’t very expensive and are well supported, including board files and programming support in Vivado I believe. https://digilent.com/shop/arty-s7-spartan-7-fpga-development-board/
Cheaper than those you’ll probably need to change FPGA vendors, like this Lattice board https://www.tindie.com/products/tinyvision_ai/upduino-v31-low-cost-lattice-ice40-fpga-board/
I’m a big advocate for open source hardware and software, which The FPGA industry really struggles with. I’ve heard the ICE40 FPGA is supported with an open source software tool chain. It looks capable enough to make a CPU and low speed peripherals, but I haven’t used them.