What should I do with old desktops?

[BloodyWaters]

I recently received lots of older Dell Optiplexes from a library. They have mostly Core 2 Duo CPU's and 2-3 have Core 2 Quads. I would love to make use of them in some way instead of just collecting dust. Any ideas?

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, BloodyWaters said:

I recently received lots of older Dell Optiplexes from a library. They have mostly Core 2 Duo CPU's and 2-3 have Core 2 Quads. I would love to make use of them in some way instead of just collecting dust. Any ideas?

Give me one bro, just give me one !!!

Nah, just joking.

[Guest]

3 minutes ago, BloodyWaters said:

I recently received lots of older Dell Optiplexes from a library. They have mostly Core 2 Duo CPU's and 2-3 have Core 2 Quads. I would love to make use of them in some way instead of just collecting dust. Any ideas?

You can make a NAS, folding at  home or sell it

[TetraSky]

See if they work, format them and re-sell them for cheap, like $20 each on craigsells/kijiji/whatever else?

Or give them to people who don't have a PC/still use a PC even more ancient than those.

[Orangeator]

Yeah I completely understand what you are saying... Like someone suggested above me, make a NAS. Great way to put those little CPU's to work and benefit your home life.

[PSUGuru]

Give them to me. I'll take them off your hands for free.

[ProjectBox153]

5 hours ago, TetraSky said:

See if they work, format them and re-sell them for cheap, like $20 each on craigsells/kijiji/whatever else?

Or give them to people who don't have a PC/still use a PC even more ancient than those.

For those systems, you are able to get a whole lot more than $20.

[HelplmChoking]

Burn them? Target Practice? Set the CPU voltage to 2V and see what happens?

[TetraSky]

1 hour ago, Jamiec1130 said:

For those systems, you are able to get a whole lot more than $20.

Maybe, but I personally wouldn't pay more than that for a 10 year old computer. Because that's how old the core 2 duo is.

[LucasDerpYT]

Upgrade them to quads like q6600 and 8GB ram, then get a new GPU erase the branding and sell them

[LucasDerpYT]

7 hours ago, Orangeator said:

Yeah I completely understand what you are saying... Like someone suggested above me, make a NAS. Great way to put those little CPU's to work and benefit your home life.

A storage server of all their drives in raid would be great

[sazrocks]

Stick your favorite Linux distro on it, and turn them into a web/TeamSpeak/FTP/VPN server.

[cereune]

I'd use them either as servers or for virus testing. Mainly because virus testing is fun.

[BlueChinchillaEatingDorito]

I'm using my Homer Server as a night stand since it's not in use right now.

[iamdarkyoshi]

9 hours ago, Orangeator said:

Yeah I completely understand what you are saying... Like someone suggested above me, make a NAS. Great way to put those little CPU's to work and benefit your home life.

An amd e350 is enough for a 2TB raidz nas

[ProjectBox153]

16 hours ago, TetraSky said:

Maybe, but I personally wouldn't pay more than that for a 10 year old computer. Because that's how old the core 2 duo is.

Hmm, I would easily pay $50 for a nice Core 2 Duo rig. They aren't bad you know.

[Automobili3XF]

You could cherry pick the parts and make one machine to use it as PFSense or OPNsense router.

Wendell shall help you:

 

[Leadneck]

You could cluster them all together.

 

Just for shiggles.

 

Then do fold@home with your new Core 2 supercomputer!

 

Then finally, go bankrupt from the power bill.

[JoeCoke]

Give them to me!

 

 

loljk

 

Sell them, build yourself an HTPC, build a router or NAS, build some PCs for friends of family, do whatever. Core 2 PCs are still pretty useful for all sorts of stuff.

[mad dudy]

1.buy a catapult

2.launch them all at the library you got them from for a refund

[Min Ki Jung]

Use it as a home file server

1. Plug in ethernet cable and power cable.

2. Create a partition and share that partition (search properties, advanced sharing, whatever)

3. Turn on another pc, go to network, and connect to the folder using the server's ip address

4. Now you have a cheap, low power, powerful home file server!