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In what way? Those are 2 very different machines, and you haven't stated a use case. Without that it's not really possible to compare them. 

i bought a new (very old) toy





 
ill post more details when it shows up
but tldr its a 166mhz Pentium MMX, 48mb of ram and a 1024x768 XGA display
very similar to my thinkpad 380ED but with a non garbage display panel
 

That's definitely not what I'd call a crappy computer. 

Did someone say OptiPlex mods?

That's definitely not what I'd call a crappy computer. 

That's definitely not what I'd call a crappy computer. 

IMO the 250 plan is fine. Better can be nice, but it doesn't sound like you really need that much speed. If it turns out that you do need more you can always upgrade later. 

Sun Microsystems UltraSPARC 1 CPU die mounted in a keyring fob. 
 
64 bit, 143MHz, 2x16KiB cache, 3.8M transistors, 500nm, circa 1995.
 
I wrote my first 64-bit code in C on the first systems built using this chip, one quarter of a century ago.
 
UltraSPARC Wikipedia article

There are students everywhere in need of devices, more now than ever before. I'm sure that you could find someone who genuinely needed it by posting it on Facebook or something if you didn't get the chance to get to Free Geek. 

I mean, if you don't have a use for it why keep it? If you want to sell it then do so, but if you want to donate it then do what @Bitter and @Schnoz said and donate it more directly. I also do some work in refurbishing computers for students, and these older Core i-series machines are perfect for a student to use for online learning. 

While I definitely don't see that machine as being old or retro, you should be able to sell it. I sold a couple of those for $60 each a few months ago. If you donate it they'll likely at least wipe the hard drive, so I wouldn't put any time into setting up the OS. 

While I definitely don't see that machine as being old or retro, you should be able to sell it. I sold a couple of those for $60 each a few months ago. If you donate it they'll likely at least wipe the hard drive, so I wouldn't put any time into setting up the OS. 

There is always a risk driver wise that could cause issues and complicate things. I personally always advocate to reinstall fresh with major hardware changes like a CPU/Motherboard. 

I feel old. You don't need to worry with the CD1 connector. That's for CD audio, and you aren't likely going to need it. As for the red connector, that's USB for the front panel ports. The connector with a single row of pins (the second picture) should be for the card reader. It connects to a USB header, it just only uses half of the pins as it's a single device. 

Uhhhhh no, that's not how that works. I don't know if it's a fake or not, but it looks suspicious to me. I wouldn't buy it. 
Yeah, that's a fake card. If you buy it you'll be throwing your money away. 

Uhhhhh no, that's not how that works. I don't know if it's a fake or not, but it looks suspicious to me. I wouldn't buy it. 
Yeah, that's a fake card. If you buy it you'll be throwing your money away. 

Uhhhhh no, that's not how that works. I don't know if it's a fake or not, but it looks suspicious to me. I wouldn't buy it. 
Yeah, that's a fake card. If you buy it you'll be throwing your money away. 

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Derailment won.
 
To answer, only LMG knows. But considering the pandemic and constructions going on, could be a while to make something that doesn't actually bring them any money.

Just a heads up, you marked your own post as the solution to your question. 

Can you clarify which GPUs you're looking at? Also, which CPU do you have? vPro doesn't tell us anything. 
No, not at all. 

Honestly the lifespan of a hard drive just depends on too many things to be able to say for sure. I've got a few drives from the 80s (one is a 30MB drive from an IBM PS/1 and the other is a 10MB SCSI drive used with a Macintosh SE) that are still running fine, but they've been kept in decent condition by their previous owners. 

Not even close. 

The board will probably allow you to run one display from the iGPU, so that should work fine. 

It was bulkier and not as easy to connect and disconnect, so that could be a reason. I don't remember. But yeah, some of the oldest SATA drives did have molex power connectors, though they also had regular SATA power connectors as well. 

Unless it's an older drive. Older SATA drives had molex power connectors as well.