Breathe New life into Dino PC? Pointless or no?

[kfarris]

This project will be put off to the side until my APU overclocking guide is completed.  <_< 

 

 

So I plan on using this PC as a home networked device of some kind? (have not decided yet and will explain why at later date..)

 

As you can probably see in the photo's I am using some pretty old hardware why? Well I plan on bringing it up to date with the latest stuff like SATA ports, etc

(Plan on adding SSD'd to this and ya I know I will be limited to about 1.5gig to 2g speed wise from my calculations) 

 

I am going to modding this to be water cooled and see how far I can overclock it. 

 

 

Hardware Specs:

 

Motherboard: ASUS P4S533-X Socket 478

CPU: I've got a few Pentium 4's and a celeron.

GPU: geforce fx 5500 (NOTE: All but 1 of the capacitors blew so I soldered some replacement ones on with higher heat temps lol.   New ones 16v 105C-(1500uf) original 16v 1000uf.)

RAM: 2x1gig sticks kingston

WIFI CARD: Linksys wireliss-N PCI Adapter

Phone modem card: Might use as fax machiene or something else..

PCI expansion card thing? MS-6958 Ver:2 (yes will use will explain later)

Monoprice 4 Port SATA Serial ATA PCI RAID Controller Card - Silicon

(Link to buy is here https://www.monoprice.com/Product?p_id=2667&catargetid=320013720000066114&cadevice=c&kpid=102667&gclid=CjwKEAjwh6SsBRCYrKHF7J3NjicSJACUxAh7MwuNwc-BYpbp_Ma3qUw8B2dupElhpKFO2zlW7uvEqhoCtA7w_wcB)

PCI 32bit TO PCI-e Express 16X 8x 4x 1x adapter card ( I plan on throwing in a GTX 750ti just to see..) http://www.aliexpress.com/item/PCI-32bit-TO-PCI-e-Express-16X-8x-4x-1x-adapter-card/292141759.html

 

 

 

Summery:

 

So it will be water cooled, it will be overclocked, it will have sata-1 support, it will have SSD's, it will have a GTX 750ti or smaller GPU depends.., it will be insane and will be running windows 7.

 

[Bogica]

Don't invest so much. Just revive them and build like a TV box or something, maybe a linux server or linux machine.
I plan on reviving my old Dual core with 2GB RAM, changing the PSU and dipping them in mineral oil, just for fun.
 

[kfarris]

Don't invest so much. Just revive them and build like a TV box or something, maybe a linux server or linux machine.

I plan on reviving my old Dual core with 2GB RAM, changing the PSU and dipping them in mineral oil, just for fun.

 

I'm not actually investing anything I have everything but 2 of the components which only will cost about 40$...

I could change this build to this hardware http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883109011(already have this PC laying around doing nothing)