Just found an old laptop and want a project.

[Lonehelljumper]

It's a old gateway p173xl fx. I want to turn it into a linux and windows 10 machine. I've got 2 240 GB SSDs on the way (it can hold 2 drives). It only has 4gb of ram (that's max supported). I would like to play some old games on it, any idea what I can play?  (like best graphics games). Also how should i go about linux as I've never used it before?  I went ahead and put windows 10 on it, seems to run ok at best. I got this laptop 11 or 10 years ago. Also any idea how to boost the speed of this thing other than a ssd?

[emosun]

you'd get quite a massive speed boost just restoring it's original OS instead of windows 10. the machine is more than likely devoting half of its resources just trying to seed telemetry to microsoft.

[Lonehelljumper]

12 minutes ago, emosun said:

you'd get quite a massive speed boost just restoring it's original OS instead of windows 10. the machine is more than likely devoting half of its resources just trying to seed telemetry to microsoft.

I mean I can go back to vista, but I think that would suck too lol. 

[emosun]

it would suck a lot less than windows 10 with only 4gb of ram and a c2d

[Lonehelljumper]

33 minutes ago, emosun said:

it would suck a lot less than windows 10 with only 4gb of ram and a c2d

Well instead of windows 10/linux/windows xp 64 I would do vista instead.

[Donut417]

3 hours ago, Lonehelljumper said:

Well instead of windows 10/linux/windows xp 64 I would do vista instead.

Windows 7, its pretty much Vista, just done right. 

[Lonehelljumper]

Doesnt work with windows 7, I'm not for sure why, but it overheats like crazy on 7. No problems with vista or 10.

[Lonehelljumper]

Ok so new problem. The ssds I bought are not being detected by bios. 

[AndreiArgeanu]

20 hours ago, Lonehelljumper said:

Ok so new problem. The ssds I bought are not being detected by bios. 

I'm not sure whether it applies to older laptops but I had a similar issue and it was due to the windows boot manager, anyway I had to disable some safe boot stuff and I believe I changed it from UEFI to legacy or something in between those lines. Try mess a bit with the bios settings and see if you can get it to recognize it, if not then you may have an issue however I think you still may have a chance if you get an msata ssd that is if the laptop has an msata port